Mental health-related visits in a pediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic

We aimed to describe the epidemiology of all pediatric emergency department visits (focusing on mental health-related visits versus total visits) at the University Children’s Hospital of Nice (France) from 1 January to 31 December 2020 (year of the COVID-19 pandemic) and to compare it with the earli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Fernandez, Arnaud, Gindt, Morgane, Babe, Phillipe, Askenazy, Florence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
Materias:
Brief Research Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34736389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-021-00387-0
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Sumario:We aimed to describe the epidemiology of all pediatric emergency department visits (focusing on mental health-related visits versus total visits) at the University Children’s Hospital of Nice (France) from 1 January to 31 December 2020 (year of the COVID-19 pandemic) and to compare it with the earlier 3-year period. The increase in mental health-related visits (44.2%) that we observed, while total visits decreased (30.0%), suggests an impact of the pandemic on children’s and adolescents’ mental health.

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