{"id":2167,"date":"2020-11-13T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:11:28","slug":"mental-health-related-emergency-department-visits-among-children-aged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/13\/mental-health-related-emergency-department-visits-among-children-aged\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health\u2013Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged <18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, January 1\u2013October 17, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>During the COVID-19 pandemic (mid-March to October) mental health related emergency department (ED) visits among children and adolescents decreased in absolute numbers, but increased as a proportion all pediatric ED visits. The proportion of mental health related ED visits among all pediatric ED visits for children aged 5\u201311 and 12\u201317 years increased by 24% and 31%, respectively, compared to the same time period in 2019. During this period, there were initial substantial declines in the overall reported number of children\u2019s mental health-related ED visits, which coincided with measures such as school closures, followed by a return to an absolute level similar to the pre-pandemic period. Even larger decreases in overall pediatric ED visits were observed. The authors suggest that this reflects that children\u2019s mental health concerns were sufficient to drive ED visits at a time when non-emergent visits were discouraged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leeb et al. (Nov 13, 2020). Mental Health\u2013Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged &lt;18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, January 1\u2013October 17, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6945a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6945a3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic (mid-March to October) mental health related emergency department (ED) visits among children and adolescents decreased in absolute numbers, but increased as a proportion all pediatric ED visits. The proportion of mental health related ED visits among all pediatric ED visits for children aged 5\u201311 and 12\u201317 years increased by 24% and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/13\/mental-health-related-emergency-department-visits-among-children-aged\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}