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Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged <18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, January 1-October 17, 2020.
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Promote Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors for Adolescents With Mental Health Conditions
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240 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth - a systematic review.Child and adolescent mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Outcomes Following a Mental Health Care Intervention for Children in the Emergency Department: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
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- Feasibility, acceptability, and depression outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens (MSC-T) for adolescents with subsyndromal depression.Journal of adolescence · 2024Trial
- Association Between Triage Score and Resource Use for Children Presenting to the Emergency Department with Behavioral Health Conditions.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- Predicting Psychiatric Readmission of Children and Adolescents Using Machine Learning.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- An Examination of Digital Media and Device-Related Problems in Pediatric Hospital Visits for Psychiatric Crises.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Post-infectious psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses in children and adolescents following COVID-19.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Implementing a Psychology Consultation Model on an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Unit.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Healthcare staff evaluation of an emergency department mental health room: a Virtual reality study.Building research and information · 2026Article
- Mental Health Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Alabama Publicly Insured Youth During COVID-19.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2026Article
- Post-COVID-19 increases in depression and other psychiatric disorders among Saudi children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Changes in youth public psychiatric service utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: an observational study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- A Team-Based Partner-Driven Model for Delivering Outpatient Exposure Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Seeking Care for Suicidal Thoughts and Actions: How COVID Affected Our Pediatric Patients.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Digital Media-related Problems Contributing to Psychiatric Hospitalizations Among Children and Adolescents Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Behavioral Health Student Assistance Programs: Leveraging Non-Traditional Mental Health Providers to Address Workforce Shortages and Mitigate the Youth Mental Health Crisis.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- The Unintended Impact of COVID-19 Associated Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Paediatric Hospital Admissions: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Unmet Health Care Needs Due to Cost and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationally Representative Analysis of U.S. Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Examining Alternative Treatment Settings for Adolescents With Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JAACAP open · 2025Article
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Abstract
Published reports suggest that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a negative effect on children's mental health (1,2). Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of care for children experiencing mental health emergencies, particularly when other services are inaccessible or unavailable (3). During March 29-April 25, 2020, when widespread shelter-in-place orders were in effect, ED visits for persons of all ages declined 42% compared with the same period in 2019; during this time, ED visits for injury and non-COVID-19-related diagnoses decreased, while ED visits for psychosocial factors increased (4). To assess changes in mental health-related ED visits among U.S. children aged <18 years, data from CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) from January 1 through October 17, 2020, were compared with those collected during the same period in 2019. During weeks 1-11 (January 1-March 15, 2020), the average reported number of children's mental health-related ED visits overall was higher in 2020 than in 2019, whereas the proportion of children's mental health-related visits was similar. Beginning in week 12 (March 16) the number of mental health-related ED visits among children decreased 43% concurrent with the widespread implementation of COVID-19 mitigation measures; simultaneously, the proportion of mental health-related ED visits increased sharply beginning in mid-March 2020 (week 12) and continued into October (week 42) with increases of 24% among children aged 5-11 years and 31% among adolescents aged 12-17 years, compared with the same period in 2019. The increased proportion of children's mental health-related ED visits during March-October 2020 might be artefactually inflated as a consequence of the substantial decrease in overall ED visits during the same period and variation in the number of EDs reporting to NSSP. However, these findings provide initial insight into children's mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the importance of continued monitoring of children's mental health throughout the pandemic, ensuring access to care during public health crises, and improving healthy coping strategies and resiliency among children and families.
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