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CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 1499-1509Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01348-1
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Covid-19; Tourette syndrome; Tics; Mental health; Children and young people
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A study on children and young people with tic disorders found that the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly impact existing tic symptoms, regardless of age, gender, symptoms of anxiety, or autism spectrum disorder.
To understand how children and young people with tic disorders were affected by COVID-19, we compared pre and during pandemic scores on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS). Participants were young people (N = 112; male:78%; 9-17 years) randomised to the control arm of the ORBIT-Trial (ISRCTN70758207, ClinicalTrials.gov-NCT03483493). For this analysis, the control arm was split into two groups: one group was followed up to 12-months' post-randomisation before the pandemic started (pre-COVID group, n = 44); the other group was impacted by the pandemic at the 12-month follow-up (during-COVID group, n = 47). Mixed effects linear regression modelling was conducted to explore differences in YGTSS at 6- and 12-months post-randomisation. There were no significant differences in tic symptom or severity between participants who were assessed before and during COVID-19. This finding was not influenced by age, gender, symptoms of anxiety or autism spectrum disorder. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly impact existing tic symptoms.
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