Injuries and child abuse increase during the pandemic over 12942 emergency admissions.

Autor: Hennocq Q; Service de chirurgie maxillofaciale et chirurgie plastique, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, 149 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75015, France. Electronic address: quentin.hennocq@gmail.com., Adjed C; AP-HP.Centre, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin Port Royal, DMU PRIME, Unité de Recherche Clinique, Paris, France., Chappuy H; Service des urgences pédiatriques, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris, France., Orliaguet G; Service d'anesthésie-réanimation pédiatrique et obstétricale, Hôpital universitaire Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris & EA 7323, Pharmacologie et évaluation des thérapeutiques chez l'enfant et la femme enceinte, Université de Paris, Paris, France., Monteil C; Services des urgences pédiatriques, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris ; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris, France., Kebir CE; Service social, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris, France., Picard A; Service de chirurgie maxillofaciale et chirurgie plastique, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, 149 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75015, France., Segna E; Service de chirurgie maxillofaciale et chirurgie plastique, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, 149 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75015, France., Beeker N; AP-HP.Centre, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin Port Royal, DMU PRIME, Unité de Recherche Clinique, Paris, France., Khonsari RH; Service de chirurgie maxillofaciale et chirurgie plastique, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, 149 rue de Sèvres, Paris 75015, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Injury [Injury] 2022 Oct; Vol. 53 (10), pp. 3293-3296. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.08.013
Abstrakt: Introduction: A strict lockdown was decided from 17/03/2020 to 11/05/2020 in France in order to tackle the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic. In the Great Paris region, several areas are severely affected by overcrowding, creating difficult conditions for children and their families during a period of nearly two months. The objective was to assess the effects of the 2020 spring lockdown on injuries, child abuse and neglect.
Material and Methods: The central medical data warehouse was screened for all pediatric admissions at emergency and critical care departments of 20 hospitals, in a cohort of 12942 children. Specific keywords were used to screen for both injuries and child abuse and neglect.
Results: We found head and neck trauma (1.2% in 2020 vs. 0.7% in 2019, p<0.001), burns (0.6% in 2020 vs. 0.1% in 2019, p < 0.001), lacerations (0.5% in 2020 vs. 0.3% in 2019, p<0.001), fractures (0.5% in 2020 vs. 0.3% in 2019, p<0.017), dog bites (0.1% in 2020 vs. 0.0% in 2019, p<0.001), and child abuse and neglect (18 cases during the 2020 lockdown vs. 24 cases in 2019, p=0.005) were significantly more prevalent during this period than during the same control period in 2019.
Conclusions: These results indicate that specific prevention measures are crucial if strict lockdowns are to be decided in the future.
Competing Interests: Declarations of Competing Interest None.
(Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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