Psychiatric News (10/26) reports research “describes how the number of children and adolescents admitted for eating disorders at a children’s hospital in Michigan rose steadily during the first 12 months of the” COVID-19 pandemic. Investigators “performed a chart review of youth aged 10 to 23 years admitted to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., between March 1, 2017, and March 31, 2021, for medical complications of restrictive eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa, and avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder,” then “compared data on youth admitted to the hospital from March 2017 through March 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) with data on youth admitted to the hospital from April 2020 through March 2021 (during the COVID-19 pandemic).” The findings were published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Related Links:
— “Hospitalizations of Youth With Eating Disorders Rose During Pandemic, Report Shows, Psychiatric News, October 26, 2021