Has Anything Changed in the Frequency of Emergency Department Visits and the Profile of the Adolescent Seeking Emergency Mental Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

COVID-19 pandemic adolescent eating disorders emergency department mental health disorders mood disorders suicide

Journal

Children (Basel, Switzerland)
ISSN: 2227-9067
Titre abrégé: Children (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101648936

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
17 Mar 2023
Historique:
received: 31 01 2023
revised: 07 03 2023
accepted: 14 03 2023
medline: 30 3 2023
entrez: 29 3 2023
pubmed: 30 3 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We described changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the frequency of Emergency Department (ED) visits for mental health disorders (MHDs) in adolescents on a wider temporal range-that is, not just "the waves" of the pandemic-and characterized the profile of the adolescent seeking emergency psychiatric care. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal study by analyzing ED visits for MHDs from 10 March 2019 to 10 March 2021. A total of 1407 ED visits for MHDs were registered: 702 in the pre-COVID-19 and 707 in the COVID-19 period. The cumulative incidence of ED visits for MHDs was 1.22% in the pre-COVID-19 period and 1.77% in the COVID-19 period, with a statistically significant difference (

Identifiants

pubmed: 36980136
pii: children10030578
doi: 10.3390/children10030578
pmc: PMC10047842
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Auteurs

Valentina Ferro (V)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Roberto Averna (R)

Child and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Manuel Murciano (M)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Umberto Raucci (U)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Sebastian Cristaldi (S)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Anna Maria Caterina Musolino (AMC)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Maria Pontillo (M)

Child and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Nicoletta Della Vecchia (N)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Milena Labonia (M)

Child and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Mara Pisani (M)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Maria Laura Pucciarini (ML)

Child and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Raffaella Nacca (R)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Antonino Reale (A)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

Stefano Vicari (S)

Child and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 00168 Rome, Italy.

Alberto Villani (A)

Department of Emergency, Acceptance and General Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Systems Medicine Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.

Massimiliano Raponi (M)

Medical Direction, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.

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