TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Mental health-related visits in a pediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic JO - International journal of emergency medicine A1 - Fernández, A. A1 - Gindt, M. A1 - Babe, P. A1 - Askenazy, F. SP - EP - VL - 14 IS - 1 N2 - 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).

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LA - en SN - 1865-1372 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-021-00387-0 ID - ref1 ER -