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CEV individuals were identified using the COVID-19 shielded patient list.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Setting<\/jats:title>\n Primary and secondary healthcare settings covering 80% of the population of Wales.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Participants<\/jats:title>\n Children aged 2\u201317 in Wales: CEV (3769); living with a CEV person (20 033); or neither (415 009).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Primary outcome measure<\/jats:title>\n First record of anxiety or depression in primary or secondary healthcare in 2019\/2020 and 2020\/2021, identified using Read and International Classification of Diseases V.10 codes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n A Cox regression model adjusted for demographics and history of anxiety or depression revealed that only CEV children were at greater risk of presenting with anxiety or depression during the pandemic compared with the general population (HR=2.27, 95% CI=1.94 to 2.66, p<0.001). Compared with the general population, the risk among CEV children was higher in 2020\/2021 (risk ratio 3.04) compared with 2019\/2020 (risk ratio 1.90). In 2020\/2021, the period prevalence of anxiety or depression increased slightly among CEV children, but declined among the general population.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Differences in the period prevalence of recorded anxiety or depression in healthcare between CEV children and the general population were largely driven by a reduction in presentations to healthcare services by children in the general population during the pandemic.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2022-067882","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,16]],"date-time":"2023-06-16T13:32:37Z","timestamp":1686922357000},"page":"e067882","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of clinically extremely vulnerable children and children living with clinically extremely vulnerable people in Wales: a data linkage study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7757-4219","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laura Elizabeth","family":"Cowley","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Population Data Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karen","family":"Hodgson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research and Evaluation Division, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiao","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Health Protection Division, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tony","family":"Whiffen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Administrative Data Research Unit, Welsh Government, Cardiff, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jacinta","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5657-6995","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ann","family":"John","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Population Data Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2798-4030","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amrita","family":"Bandyopadhyay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University, Swansea, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8066-7264","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alisha R","family":"Davies","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research and Evaluation Division, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121219343942000_13.6.e067882.1","unstructured":"Davies A , Song J , Bentley L , et al . 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