The impact of COVID-19 on the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Departments of the paediatric university hospital in Brussels
| Autor: | S. Marchini, B. Tedik, C. Bennis, V. Delvenne |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry, Vol 66, Pp S583-S584 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.1219 |
| Popis: | Introduction Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, children and adolescents mental health has been severely impacted. During the first lockdown measures in the spring of 2020, we observed a decrease in access to care, principally due to the “stay home” policy. From the beginning of the year 2021, we observed a massive increase in admission to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Emergency Departments (ED) (Beaudry et al. Ann. Gen. Psychiatry 2022; 21(1), 17; Hernández-Calle et al. SJCAPP 2022; 10(1), 53–57). Objectives First, this study aimed to quantify the increase in patients’ admissions to the CAP ED of the paediatric university hospital in the urban area of Brussels. Second, we described the reasons for admission. Methods We conducted an observational retrospective study in the French-speaking Belgium paediatric university hospital in Brussels. Through the ED register, we selected all the admissions for psychiatric reasons from 1st December 2020 to 1st December 2021. Data were collected from patients’ electronic medical records and compared to data from 1st January 2013 to 29th February 2016, already collected in 2016 from the same ED. To compare the variables between 2013-2016 and 2020-2021, we performed a Student’s t-test for the number of admissions to CAP EP, a chi-squared test for sex rate, suicide attempts and urgent hospitalizations, and a Wilcoxon test for the median age. The study protocol was approved by the Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital IRB (reference 99/21). Results Female patients were more represented in 2020-2021 than in 2013-2016 (48% compared to 66.1%, p |
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