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Depression, anxiety: Pandemic takes its toll on young kids

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Queensland and Victorian surveyed more than 370 Australian families with children aged one to five between August and November last year as part of their ongoing COVID-19 Unmasked research.Not surprisingly, lead researcher Alex De Young, of Children’s Health Queensland, said Victorian children who had experienced a second extended lockdown exhibited significantly increased anxiety, depression and attachment-seeking behaviours.Up to 47 per cent of children caught up in Victoria’s second lockdown…



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