COVID-19 Pandemic School Disruptions and Acute Mental Health in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There are suggestions that school pressure may be stressful and a factor in child and adolescent mental health disturbances, but data about this association are scarce and inconclusive.

Objective

To assess whether varying degrees of school interruption were associated with changes in emergency department (ED) psychiatric visits of children and adolescents before and after the COVID-19 outbreak.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional observational study was conducted at 9 urban university hospitals in Italy. All ED visits from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2021, for psychiatric reasons of patients younger than 18 years were examined for demographic characteristics and type of psychopathologic factors. Data analysis was conducted from July 1 t

SUBMITTER: Davico C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11301547 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature