Young people’s mental and social distress in times of international crisis: evidence from helpline calls, 2019–2022

Abstract We document mental and social distress of children, adolescents and adults, using data on 3 million calls to German helplines between January 2019 and May 2022. High-frequency data from crisis helpline logs offer rich information on the evolution of “revealed distress” among the most vulner...

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Main Authors: Marius Brülhart, Valentin Klotzbücher, Rafael Lalive
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39064-y