Citation

Fernández A, Gindt M, Babe P, Askenazy F. Int. J. Emerg. Med. 2021; 14(1).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1186/s12245-021-00387-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We aimed to describe the epidemiology of all pediatric emergency department visits (focusing on mental health-related visits versus total visits) at the University Children's Hospital of Nice (France) from 1 January to 31 December 2020 (year of the COVID-19 pandemic) and to compare it with the earlier 3-year period. The increase in mental health-related visits (44.2%) that we observed, while total visits decreased (30.0%), suggests an impact of the pandemic on children's and adolescents' mental health. © 2021, The Author(s).

Language: en

Keywords

human; mental health; child; Mental health; suicidal ideation; suicide attempt; longitudinal study; Child and adolescent psychiatry; comparative study; major clinical study; controlled study; child psychiatry; emergency ward; Article; disease surveillance; coronavirus disease 2019; pediatric emergency medicine; COVID-19 pandemic; Pediatric emergency department visits