Hospital admissions for stress-related presentations among school-aged adolescents during term time versus holidays in England: weekly time series and retrospective cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Schools are a potential stressor for adolescents and may contribute to emergency hospital admissions.

Aims

We describe rates of stress-related presentations (SRPs) among school-aged adolescents (11-17 years) during school terms and holidays, and explore differences by age and gender.

Method

Using national administrative hospital data, we defined an SRP as an emergency hospital admission with a primary diagnosis related to pain, psychosomatic symptoms (e.g. fatigue) or mental health problems, or with self-harm indicated in any diagnostic position. We estimated incidence rate ratios for weekly SRPs in term time versus holidays from 2014-2015 to 2017-2018, using negative binomial regression models, stratified by age and gender. We estimated the cumulative inci

SUBMITTER: Blackburn R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612011 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature