{"id":2195,"date":"2020-11-16T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:33:01","slug":"changes-in-pediatric-emergency-department-visits-for-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-cross-sectional-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/16\/changes-in-pediatric-emergency-department-visits-for-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-cross-sectional-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a cross-sectional study conducted at a children\u2019s hospital in Connecticut, there was a 60.8% reduction in children presenting to emergency departments with mental health-related diagnoses during the early COVID-19 pandemic period compared to 2019. Black children were significantly less likely to present with a mental health condition than white children during the pandemic as opposed to the pre-pandemic study period (<i>p<\/i>\u00a0= 0.002).<\/p>\n<p><i>Leff et al. (Nov 13, 2020). Changes in Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1359104520972453\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1359104520972453<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a cross-sectional study conducted at a children\u2019s hospital in Connecticut, there was a 60.8% reduction in children presenting to emergency departments with mental health-related diagnoses during the early COVID-19 pandemic period compared to 2019. Black children were significantly less likely to present with a mental health condition than white children during the pandemic as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/16\/changes-in-pediatric-emergency-department-visits-for-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-cross-sectional-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,42,44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-disparities","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}