COVID-19 and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health Service Utilization: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges accessing mental health (MH) services when adolescent well-being declined. Still, little is known on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected outpatient MH service utilization for adolescents.

Methods

Retrospective data was collected from electronic medical records of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States, an integrated healthcare system from January 2019 to December 2021. MH diagnoses included anxiety, mood disorder/depression, anxiety and mood disorder/depression, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or psychosis. We used interrupted time series analysis to compare MH visits and psychopharmaceutical prescribing before and after the COVID-19 onset. Analyses were stratified by demographics

SUBMITTER: Burrell TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10250250 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature