id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-257216-0dr6xupy Liang, Leilei Post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in Chinese youths following the COVID-19 emergency 2020-07-06 .txt text/plain 4647 266 52 This study aims to explore the relationship between psychological distress and post-traumatic stress disorder among Chinese participants as the result of COVID-19 outbreak. In a survey with regard to the mental health of general population 2 weeks after the COVID-19 outbreak in China, which the result showed about one-third of participants reported moderate to severe level of anxiety (Wang et al., 2020a) , and nearly 40.4% of the youth had a tendency to have psychological problems . However, most of previous studies focused on the impacts of public health emergencies such as infectious diseases on the medical staffs who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Brooks et al., 2018; Kang et al., 2020) , and less on the impacts of PTSD diagnoses among younger people with lower adaptive capacities and less mature cognitive abilities which make them vulnerable against psychological distresses (CĂ©nat and Derivois, 2014) . ./cache/cord-257216-0dr6xupy.txt ./txt/cord-257216-0dr6xupy.txt