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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

A Following Wave Pattern of Suicide-Related Pediatric Emergency Room Admissions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Tomer Mevorach, Gil Zur, Noa Benaroya-Milshtein, Alan Apter, Silvana Fennig, Shira Barzilay

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  3. Exploring adolescent suicide attempts before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2024
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Tomer MevorachDepartment of Psychiatry, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel.
Gil ZurThe Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
Noa Benaroya-MilshteinDepartment of Psychiatry, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel.
Alan ApterDepartment of Psychiatry, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel.
Silvana FennigDepartment of Psychiatry, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel.
Shira BarzilayDepartment of Psychiatry, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and response, which included physical distancing and stay-at-home orders, disrupted the daily lives of children and adolescents, isolating them from their peers, school, and other meaningful contacts. The present study aims to add to the accumulating evidence on the pandemic's impact on child and adolescent suicidal behavior. Data were extracted from Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel's pediatric emergency room (ER) admissions for psychiatric consultation for suicidal-risk assessment between 1 January 2020, and 16 April 2022. We applied time-lagged cross-correlation analysis and a Granger causality test to assess the temporal relationships between COVID-19 infection waves and patterns of suicide-related ER admissions. The results revealed a significant lagged correlation between national COVID-19 infection rates and ER admission rates. The highest correlation was above 0.4 and was found with a lag of 80 to 100 days from infection rate to ER admission rate. The findings show that the effects of public crises change over time and may be lagged. This may have important implications for mental health services' readiness to serve growing numbers of children and adolescents at risk for suicide.

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COVID-19SuicideAdolescentChildHospitalizationHumansPandemicsSuicidal IdeationCOVID-19emergency roomrisk assessmentsuicidesuicide attempt

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PMCPMC9860884

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