Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Adolescent and Young Adult Eating Disorder Care Volume.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected youth mental health. Increases in site-specific eating disorder (ED) care have been documented; however, multisite studies demonstrating national trends are lacking.

Objective

To compare the number of adolescent/young adult patients seeking inpatient and outpatient ED care before and after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

Using an observational case series design, changes in volume in inpatient and outpatient ED-related care across 15 member sites (14 geographically diverse hospital-based adolescent medicine programs and 1 nonhospital-based ED program) of the US National Eating Disorder Quality Improvement Collaborative was examined. Sites reported monthly volumes of patients seeking inpati

SUBMITTER: Hartman-Munick SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641596 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature