Covid-19: SEROCOV-Kids; Establishment of a digital cohort to monitor the impact of the Covid19-related sanitary crisis on mental and physical health, development and general well-being of children and adolescents

The project aims to carry out an observational study among children and adolescents in Geneva (1 to 17 years), with the objective of putting in place a population-based sentinel system to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on various dimensions of health and development and monitor socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes of this generation of children and adolescents. The aims of the project are To estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on children's health behaviors To assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and related confinement/isolation on children's physical and mental health and To estimate the role of individual and neighborhood socio-economic factors in shaping the impact of the COVID-19 crisis To assess the impact of the direct and indirect consequences of the COVID19 epidemics on social inequalities in health outcomes and model the long-term lifecourse impact on social and health trajectories To examine the effects of long-covid in children The following are included in this study: Serology at baseline and after 18 months Inclusion of a population of migrant and socially vulnerable children from the pediatric outpatient clinic in HUG, Inclusion of a population of children with disabilities and chronic diseases (clinically vulnerable) Long term follow-up of seropositive children for long-covid in children