Substance Use Disorder Visits Among Adolescents at Children's Hospitals During COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess changes in adolescent visits with substance use disorders (SUDs) at children's hospitals during COVID-19.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adolescents (11-18 years) with SUD diagnoses during a hospital visit in the Pediatric Health Information System. Study periods were defined as spring (03/15-05/31), summer (06/01-08/31), and fall (09/01-12/31), pre-COVID-19 (2017-2019), or during COVID-19 (2020). We summarized the change in weekly median visits and interquartile range (IQR) by characteristics and compared between the two periods (e.g., spring pre-COVID-19 [3/15-05/31/2017-2019] versus spring COVID-19 [3/15-05/31/2020]) using median regression.

Results

There were 42,979 SUD visits (10,697 COVID-19; 32,282 pre-COVID-19) and 256 a

SUBMITTER: Masonbrink AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9768470 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature