School closure and mental health.
School closures across the UK have provided a unique opportunity to explore teenagers’ mental health and wellbeing when not in school. Perhaps surprisingly at first glance, our recent study of year nine students in the south west of England actually suggested there might have been an overall reduction in anxiety, and an increase in wellbeing, in young people aged 13-14 during the coronavirus lockdown.
https://theconversation.com/school-c...uggests-144884
Obviously it's complicated but yeah at 13 I'd have preferred to stay home.
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