Hospitalizations Associated With Mental Health Conditions Among Adolescents in the US and France During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with an increase in mental health diagnoses among adolescents, though the extent of the increase, particularly for severe cases requiring hospitalization, has not been well characterized. Large-scale federated informatics approaches provide the ability to efficiently and securely query health care data sets to assess and monitor hospitalization patterns for mental health conditions among adolescents.

Objective

To estimate changes in the proportion of hospitalizations associated with mental health conditions among adolescents following onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, multisite cohort study of adolescents 11 to 17 years of age who were hospitalized with at least 1

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez-Sacristan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856226 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature