ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Has Anything Changed in the Frequency of Emergency Department Visits and the Profile of the Adolescent Seeking Emergency Mental Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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- Experiences of Care for Adolescents With Mental Health Difficulties in Acute Paediatric Services: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Experiences of individuals presenting to the emergency department for mental health reasons: A systematic mixed studies review.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Hospitalizations of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders in a Pediatric Unit: A 10-Year Retrospective Study.Pediatric reports · 2026Article
- Geographic variation and neighbourhood correlates of mental health-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits in children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Acute Poisoning in Children Presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department: An Epidemiologic Study and the Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Development will (try to) find its way: a qualitative study of Chilean adolescent mental health during and after lockdown.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Adolescent Mental Health: A Focus on Psychiatric Counseling from the Emergency Room of an Italian University Hospital in the Five Years from 2019 to 2023.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies at the Tübingen University Hospital: Analyzing Trends, Diagnoses, and Contributing Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
We described changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the frequency of Emergency Department (ED) visits for mental health disorders (MHDs) in adolescents on a wider temporal range-that is, not just "the waves" of the pandemic-and characterized the profile of the adolescent seeking emergency psychiatric care. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal study by analyzing ED visits for MHDs from 10 March 2019 to 10 March 2021. A total of 1407 ED visits for MHDs were registered: 702 in the pre-COVID-19 and 707 in the COVID-19 period. The cumulative incidence of ED visits for MHDs was 1.22% in the pre-COVID-19 period and 1.77% in the COVID-19 period, with a statistically significant difference (
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