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Welsh kids' self-reported wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic differed by gender, ethnicity and deprivation, with younger children reporting the need for playing with friends and older students wanting support with anxiety and educational pressures

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Welsh kids' self-reported wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic differed by gender, ethnicity and deprivation, with younger children reporting the need for playing with friends and older students wanting support with anxiety and educational pressures

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260640

Article Title: Factors influencing wellbeing in young people during COVID-19: A survey with 6291 young people in Wales

Author Countries: U.K.

Funding: This study has been funded by the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR) (https://ncphwr.org.uk/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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