The impact of stay-at-home orders on the rate of emergency department child maltreatment diagnoses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited data regarding the rates and severity of child maltreatment in medical settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reports are somewhat contradictory.

Objective

To examine the rates of emergency department (ED) child maltreatment (CM) diagnosis before and after the California statewide stay-at-home order, as well as potential disparities by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and Medicaid status.

Methods

A retrospective pre-post interrupted time series was conducted using data from the electronic health records of children (<18 years) with at least one emergency department visit between January 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021. Enactment of the stay-at-home order in California, March 2020 was used to determine a change in trend of rates of diagno

SUBMITTER: Negriff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355635 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature