Has anything changed in the frequency of emergency department visits and the profile of the adolescent seeking emergency mental care during the covid-19 pandemic?

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Besides the well-known negative effects on the physical health of individuals caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the COVID-19 pandemic represents a foreseeable and expected threat to mental health as well. The aim of this study was, first, to describe changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the frequency of ED visits for MHDs in adolescents on a wider temporal range that is not just "the waves" of the pandemic; second, the authors aimed to characterize the profile of the adolescent seeking emergency psychiatric care . . .

 



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