HealthDay (5/23) reports, “During the first pandemic year, there were increases in the proportion of pediatric patients presenting to hospital with suicidal ideation/suicidal attempts, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and obsessive compulsive and related disorders,” investigators concluded in a study that described “psychiatric diagnoses and boarding among pediatric patients presenting to the hospital after the pandemic onset in a retrospective chart review at a large Northeastern U.S. pediatric hospital.” The findings were published online May 17 in the journal Hospital Pediatrics.
Related Links:
— “Pediatric Mental Health Crises Up During First Year of Pandemic, HealthDay, May 23, 2022