ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2023
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian Pediatric Tertiary Care Hospitalizations for Anorexia Nervosa.
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- Short- and long-term effects of Covid-19 pandemic on health care system for individuals with eating disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Anorexia Nervosa in Polish Children and Adolescents in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic-An Observational Single Centre Study.Nutrients · 2024Observational
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- Un guide pour la prise en charge communautaire des troubles des conduites alimentaires en pédiatrie.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Review
- A guide to the community management of paediatric eating disorders.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Review
- Impact of a debrief tool in acute child and adolescent mental health inpatient units: a centre's experience.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- The financial and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth with eating disorders, their families, clinicians and the mental health system: a mixed methods cost analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Eating disorder hospitalizations among children and youth in Canada from 2010 to 2022: a population-based surveillance study using administrative data.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Editorial: COVID-19 and eating disorders 2023: lessons learnt and future directions for research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Psychological and Medical Landscape of Anorexia Nervosa over a Decade: A Retrospective Study of Possible Physical and Psychological Shifts.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The economic impact of eating disorders in children and youth in Canada: a call to action to improve youth eating disorder research and care.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- The Shadow Pandemic: Eating Disorders, Youth, and COVID-19.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Admission rates and clinical profiles of children and youth with eating disorders treated as inpatients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a German university hospital.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeGlobal studies show an increase in hospitalizations for pediatric eating disorders (EDs). No published Canadian studies have confirmed these findings in pediatric ED programs for one-year post onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objective was to examine health administrative data from two pediatric tertiary care ED programs: Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) and Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to determine the number of pediatric hospitalizations with the most responsible discharge diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN).
methodsThis hospital-based design explored monthly pediatric hospitalizations in seven-year-olds to 18-year-olds between March 11, 2014 and March 11, 2021 using the Discharge Abstract databases. The analysis used negative binomial regression with robust standard errors to compare hospitalization counts in the months preceding and following the World Health Organization pandemic declaration (March 11, 2020).
resultsHospitalizations due to pediatric AN increased by 63% and 132% at SickKids (p < .001) and ACH (p < .001), respectively, in the first year of the pandemic compared to the previous six years. The total number of non-ED hospitalizations decreased by 29.3% and 2.4% at SickKids and ACH, respectively. DISCUSSION: This is the first Canadian study to show a rise in pediatric hospitalizations over one year due to AN in two tertiary care hospitals following the onset of the pandemic, confirming the impact that the pandemic has had on children and adolescents with AN in Canada.
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