In collaboration with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , Christina Felfe, Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Konstanz, and her team are now able to show that school closures during the first wave of the pandemic led to a significant deterioration in the mental health of adolescents.
As an economist, she is interested in the cost-benefit analysis of the measures, whereby costs are understood to mean the damage caused by the Coronavirus Protection Ordinance. How much did school closures contribute to containing the pandemic, and what are the costs in this sense?She and her research associates Judith Vornberger, Patrick Schneider and Judith Saurer based their study on the dataset of Judith Vornberger summarizing the federal political structure in Germany.
In the COPSY study, participants were asked about depression levels, psychosomatic complaints, socio-emotional and behavioral difficulties, independently of any clinically diagnosed illnesses. It emerged that 11- to 17-year-old adolescents were, on average, as bad off during the first wave of the pandemic as the 15 percent of adolescents whose mental well-being was poorest prior to it. Those aged between 11 and 14 years were hit particularly hard and coped worse than 15- to 17-year-olds. The ability to shoulder the burden imposed by school closures varied depending on age, gender and living conditions.
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