Paediatric long-COVID diagnosis in school’s health unit environment

It is known that the mental health and well-being of all children and young people should be taken care of, regardless of their SARS-CoV-2 infection status. It is difficult to know the exact number of young people who need help, but in many health systems the need is likely to be greater than the resources available. Many questions about long-COVID-19 in children and adolescents <18 years of age, its prevalence, natural course, risk factors, mechanisms and consequences remain unanswered. As well as studies assessing whether vaccination reduces the risk of long-COVID-19 in children and adolescents who contract COVID-19 despite vaccination would be valuable. This paper examine the degree to which environmental elements were connected to children’s well-being during COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. The purpose of this study is to investigate early learning experiences in the family, childhood education and environmental elements that affect children’s social-emotional health. The results also show that there may be protective variables for kids’ mental health amid stressful situations, such the lockdowns that many families went through during the pandemic. Keywords: long-COVID, mental health in children, COVID-19, vaccinations, pandemic.