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Christina Berndt
Children and young people are mentally better again – but still worse than before the pandemic. Young people in Germany continue to have increased worries and fears and show psychosomatic complaints such as irritability, nervousness and sleep problems. Every fourth child still suffers from mental disorders. This is the result the latest evaluation of the large study “Corona and Psyche”, Copsy for short, which the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has just published. “It’s not really a happy Christmas message,” said psychologist and study leader Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer of the SZ. “But we are happy that things have gotten better.”