Psychological impact of lockdown on adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic

More than half the world is under lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. India has been under the first phase of countrywide lockdown from 24th March 2020 to 3rd May, 2020. This cross-sectional, observational study done during this period is an attempt to evaluate the psychological effect of the lockdown on urban adolescents along with the factors that are helping them to cope.  A structured questionnaire including 22 questions was developed by using Google forms and was answered online by the participants. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 21.0. Categorical variables were presented in number and percentages. Qualitative variables were compared using Chi-Square test. A p value of