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Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective
AIM: We compared adolescents’ visits to a tertiary-level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy during the pre-pandemic year and the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on mental health presentations. METHODS: This was a retrospective study. We collected the number of v...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36762280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1078274 |
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author | Cozzi, Giorgio Grillone, Alberto Zuliani, Elettra Giangreco, Manuela Zanchi, Chiara Abbracciavento, Giuseppe Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro |
author_facet | Cozzi, Giorgio Grillone, Alberto Zuliani, Elettra Giangreco, Manuela Zanchi, Chiara Abbracciavento, Giuseppe Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro |
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description | AIM: We compared adolescents’ visits to a tertiary-level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy during the pre-pandemic year and the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on mental health presentations. METHODS: This was a retrospective study. We collected the number of visits, the demographical features, triage codes, discharge diagnoses, and outcomes of adolescents 13–17 years old who accessed the PED from 1 March 2019 to 28 February 2022. RESULTS: During the study period, 13,410 adolescents accessed the PED. The number of visits related to mental health problems was 304 (6.4%) in the second year of the pandemic and 306 (5.6%) in the pre-pandemic year, p = 0.07. In the same periods, females’ prevalence was higher, 220 (72.4%) vs. 197 (64.4%), p = 0.03. The absolute number of subjects needing admission increased, 44 vs. 34, p = 0.21, and more urgent psychiatric consultations were needed, 161 vs. 114, p < 0.0001. The number of suicide attempts was 23 vs. 8, +188%, p = 0.01. The number of adolescents with eating disorders was 21 vs. 5, +320%, p = 0.001. CONCLUSION: PED visits for suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents sharply increased in the second year of the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-99056712023-02-08 Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective Cozzi, Giorgio Grillone, Alberto Zuliani, Elettra Giangreco, Manuela Zanchi, Chiara Abbracciavento, Giuseppe Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro Front Pediatr Pediatrics AIM: We compared adolescents’ visits to a tertiary-level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy during the pre-pandemic year and the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on mental health presentations. METHODS: This was a retrospective study. We collected the number of visits, the demographical features, triage codes, discharge diagnoses, and outcomes of adolescents 13–17 years old who accessed the PED from 1 March 2019 to 28 February 2022. RESULTS: During the study period, 13,410 adolescents accessed the PED. The number of visits related to mental health problems was 304 (6.4%) in the second year of the pandemic and 306 (5.6%) in the pre-pandemic year, p = 0.07. In the same periods, females’ prevalence was higher, 220 (72.4%) vs. 197 (64.4%), p = 0.03. The absolute number of subjects needing admission increased, 44 vs. 34, p = 0.21, and more urgent psychiatric consultations were needed, 161 vs. 114, p < 0.0001. The number of suicide attempts was 23 vs. 8, +188%, p = 0.01. The number of adolescents with eating disorders was 21 vs. 5, +320%, p = 0.001. CONCLUSION: PED visits for suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents sharply increased in the second year of the pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9905671/ /pubmed/36762280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1078274 Text en © 2023 Cozzi, Grillone, Zuliani, Giangreco, Zanchi, Abbracciavento, Barbi and Amaddeo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Cozzi, Giorgio Grillone, Alberto Zuliani, Elettra Giangreco, Manuela Zanchi, Chiara Abbracciavento, Giuseppe Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title | Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title_full | Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title_fullStr | Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title_short | Suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A paediatric emergency department perspective |
title_sort | suicide attempts and eating disorders in adolescents, the mental health wave of the second year of the covid-19 pandemic: a paediatric emergency department perspective |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36762280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1078274 |
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