Children and adolescents' voices on 'coronavirus'

How did children and adolescents
experience the coronavirus?

During the pandemic, we conducted several studies on how children and young people experienced that time. We conducted surveys, interviews, analysed children's drawings and got help from the adolescents to collect information on social media. Below are the reports we published in Swedish on this topic.

Principal investigator was Anna Sarkadi, professor.

READ THE FIRST REPPORT! Pdf, 4 MB.

Please quote the repport like this:

Anna Sarkadi, Lisa Sahlin Torp, Anna Perez Aronsson, Antonia Tökés, Natalie Durbeej, Karin Fängström, Fatumo Osman, Raziye Salari, Anna Fäldt och Kine Johansen. Barn och ungas röster om corona. En undersökning med barn och unga 4-18 år om coronapandemin våren 2020. Uppsala Universitet, 2020

See our report on the children's drawings featured on TV4 morning news from week 16, 2024. (On Swedish only)

Read the final report on the Public Health Agency of Sweden's website about the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.(On Swedish only)

Reference to our report:

Gjertsson S, Thell M, Sarkadi A. Pandemin, barn och unga: upplevelser, kunskaper och eftermälen [Registrerad handling Folkhälsomyndigheten, Diarienummer 04243-2022]. 2023.