The clinical outcomes of the study had varying prevalence and levels of severity, which ranged from mild to severe. Six thousand six hundred and eight (6608) subjects participated between June 23 and July 18, 2020. First, open coding was used (for identification), followed by the axial coding (for comparison), and lasted by sorting of coping strategies inductively.

The summative content analysis was used to analyze the open-ended question “What practices do you do at home that make you happy?”. The last section screened for eight different coping strategies. The quantitative questionnaire had five main sections as follows: the sociodemographic characteristics, Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale, Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale, and Clinical Anger Scale). A bilingual online questionnaire included close-ended and one open-ended question to screen for psychological changes and identify coping strategies practiced by children and adolescents (7–18 years) during home-isolation and social distancing. The study is a part of a larger study that reported the results of a national screening for psychological disorders experienced by children and adolescents in Qatar. This is a cross sectional study with qualitative component at its end.

This study aims to report on the psychosocial implications of social distancing and isolation on children of different nationalities who reside in Qatar, and to reveal their coping ways. Despite that, children and adolescents were able to adopt coping strategies that assisted in lowering severe levels of psychological disorders. Covid-19 related studies report psychological impacts during home isolation and social distancing.

In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross