Adolescent Total and Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Previous research has assessed changes in pediatric and adolescent health care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, less is known regarding how the pandemic affected adolescents' use of emergency care, specifically for mental health (MH).

Objective

To determine how adolescents (ages 12-17 years), compared with other age groups, sought help in emergency departments (EDs) in general and for MH conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design and setting

In this cross-sectional study, National Syndromic Surveillance Program data and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mental Health, version 1, query were used to track patterns in weekly adolescent ED visits by region across the 10 US Department of Health and Human Services regions from

SUBMITTER: Villas-Boas SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10556969 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature