MedPage Today (2/7) reports, “Pediatric mental health visits to physicians increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada,” investigators concluded in a “population-wide” study. Beginning “in July 2020, rates of visits to mental health services were consistently 6% to 15% above expected levels – based on prior years – and were sustained as of February 2021,” with “the largest increase in physician-based mental health visits…recorded for adolescent girls.” The findings were published online Feb. 7 in JAMA Pediatrics.
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