A retrospective cohort study comparing the social, familial and clinical characteristics of adolescents admitted to a French Emergency Department in suicidal crisis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The social turmoil resulting from the COVID19 pandemic has come with an increase in the incidence of suicidal crises among adolescents and in particular an increase of suicidal attempts in most Western societies. Monthly prevalence of suicidal attempts in adolescents was doubled or tripled during winter 2021 in France. This study proposes to describe the youths in suicidal crisis admitted to a French hospital during the pandemic according to their sociodemographic, familial, and clinical characteristics as well as to compare them to the adolescents who were presenting the same symptoms the years preceding the pandemic. A retrospective cohort of 332 participants was divided in two groups. The adolescents admitted during the pandemic were more frequently girls, with less familial and persona

SUBMITTER: Lauwerie L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9884401 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature