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ArticleThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2022

COVID-19-related school closures and patterns of hospital admissions with stress-related presentations in secondary school-aged adolescents: weekly time series.

Ruth M Blackburn, Jacquie Phillips Owen, Johnny Downs, Ruth Gilbert

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Article in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Ruth M BlackburnUCL Institute of Health Informatics, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-7381
Jacquie Phillips OwenInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Johnny DownsInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Ruth GilbertUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

Funding

Department of Health CS-2018-18-ST2-014Medical Research Council MR/S003797/1National Institute for Health Research CS-2018-18-ST2-014UK Research and Innovation MR/S003797/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examines health service indicators of stress-related presentations (relating to pain, mental illness, psychosomatic symptoms and self-harm) in adolescents of secondary school age, using Hospital Episode Statistics data for England. We examined weekly time series data for three academic years spanning the time before (2018-2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), including the first lockdown when schools were closed to the majority of pupils. For all secondary school children, weekly stress presentations dropped following school closures. However, patterns of elevated stress during school terms re-established after reopening, with girls aged 11-15 showing an overall increase compared with pre-pandemic rates.

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child and adolescent mental healthCOVID-19 pandemicEpidemiologymental health in schoolsstress-related presentations

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PMID36004552
PMCPMC7613736

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