Covid-19: SEROCOV-Kids; Einrichtung einer digitalen Kohorte zur Beobachtung der Auswirkungen der Covid19-bedingten Gesundheitskrise auf die psychische und körperliche Gesundheit, die Entwicklung und das allgemeine Wohlbefinden von Kindern und Jugendlichen

• Forschungsstelle: BAG
• Projektnummer: 0142004623
• Projekttitel Englisch: Covid-19: SEROCOV-Kids; Establishment of a digital cohort to monitor the impact of the Covid19-related sanitary crisis on mental and physical health, development and general well-being of children and adolescents

Schlüsselwörter (Deutsch)

Covid-19, Kinder, Jugendliche, long-covid, psychische Gesundheit

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Covid-19, children, adolescents, long-covid, socio-economic background, vulnerability, mental health, physical health, development, well-being

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

The project aims to carry out an observational study among children and adolescents in Geneva (1 to 17 years), with the objective of putting in place a population-based sentinel system to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on various dimensions of health and development and monitor socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes of this generation of children and adolescents. The aims of the project are

• To estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on children’s health behaviors
• To assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and related confinement/isolation on children’s physical and mental health and
• To estimate the role of individual and neighborhood socio-economic factors in shaping the impact of the COVID-19 crisis
• To assess the impact of the direct and indirect consequences of the COVID19 epidemics on social inequalities in health outcomes and model the long-term lifecourse impact on social and health trajectories
• To examine the effects of long-covid in children

The following are included in this study:

• Serology at baseline and after 18 months
• Inclusion of a population of migrant and socially vulnerable children from the pediatric outpatient clinic in HUG
• Inclusion of a population of children with disabilities and chronic diseases (clinically vulnerable)
• Long term follow-up of seropositive children for long-covid in children

Weiteres Vorgehen (Deutsch)

Anfragen zum weiteren Vorgehen sind zu richten an: 

Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG 
Direktionsbereich Prävention und Gesundheitsversorgung
Schwarzenburgstrasse 157 
CH - 3003 Bern 
Tel. [phone] (Nicole Fasel)
[e-mail] 

 

Publikationen / Ergebnisse (Englisch)

Richard, V., Dumont, R., Lorthe, E., Loizeau, A., Baysson, H., Zaballa, M. E., Pennacchio, F. , Barbe, R., P., Posfay-Barbe, K. M., Guessous, I., Stringhini, S. & SEROCoV-KIDS Study Group (2023).  Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents: determinants and association with quality of life and mental health—a cross-sectional study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17, 17. doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00563-5.  Open access link.

Dumont, R., Richard, V., Lorthe, E., Loizeau, A., Pennacchio, F., Zaballa, M.J., Baysson, H., Nehme, M., Perrin, A., L’Huillier, A. G., Kaiser, L., Barbe, R. P., Posfay-Barbe, K. M., & Stringhini, S., SEROCoV-KIDS study group & Guessous, I. (2022). A population-based serological study of post-COVID syndrome prevalence and risk factors in children and adolescents. Nature Communication 13, 7086. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34616-8. Open access link.