Publication date: Mar 21, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial psychological impact on adolescents in the United States (US). This study aimed to explore the multi-level resilience factors associated with adolescent suicidal ideation during the pandemic. Cross-sectional study. We conducted this study using data collected in 2021 from a nationally representative sample of US high school students (N = 7,628). The outcome variable was self-reported suicidal ideation during the pandemic. Predictors included three individual factors (sleep duration, physical activity, and muscle strengthening), two interpersonal factors (parental monitoring and virtual connectedness), and two community factors (violence-free environments and school connectedness). We built four multivariate logistic regression models to measure associations between the outcome variable and the multi-level predictors. Nearly one in five adolescents (19. 9 %) reported suicidal ideation during the pandemic. Adolescents with sufficient sleep duration (OR = 0. 51, p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Covid | Adequate sleep |
| Models | Community safety |
| Psychological | Parental monitoring |
| Sleep | Physical activity |
| Psychological resilience | |
| School connectedness | |
| Suicidal thoughts |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Suicidal ideation |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |
| disease | MESH | violence |