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Background <\/strong>\u2014 Youth have reported worsening mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to evaluate rates of pediatric acute care visits for self-harm during the pandemic according to age, sex and mental health service use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Methods<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 We conducted a population-based, repeated cross-sectional study using linked health administrative data sets to measure monthly rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions for self-harm among youth aged 10\u201317 years between Jan. 1, 2017, and June 30, 2022, in Ontario, Canada. We modelled expected rates of acute care visits for self-harm after the pandemic onset based on prepandemic rates. We reported relative differences between observed and expected monthly rates overall and by age group (10\u201313 yr and 14\u201317 yr), sex and mental health service use (new and continuing).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Results<\/strong> \u2014 In this population of about 1.3 million children and adolescents, rates of acute care visits for self-harm during the pandemic were higher than expected for emergency department visits (0.27\/1000 population v. 0.21\/1000 population; adjusted rate ratio [RR] 1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.19\u20131.39) and hospital admissions (0.74\/10 000 population v. 0.43\/10 000 population, adjusted RR 1.72, 95% CI 1.46\u20132.03). This increase was primarily observed among females. Rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions for self-harm were higher than expected for both those aged 10\u201313 years and those aged 14\u201317 years, as well as for both those new to the mental health system and those already engaged in care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Interpretation <\/strong>\u2014 Rates of acute care visits for self-harm among children and adolescents were higher than expected during the first 2 and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among females. These findings support the need for accessible and intensive prevention efforts and mental health supports in this population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background \u2014 Youth have reported worsening mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to evaluate rates of pediatric acute care visits for self-harm during the pandemic according to age, sex and mental health service use. Methods\u00a0\u2014 We conducted a population-based, repeated cross-sectional study using linked health administrative data sets to measure monthly rates of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[16,34,27],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-16736","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-children-and-young-people","topic-mental-health-and-addictions","topic-pediatrics"],"acf":{"citation":"Mitchell RHB, Toulany A, Chung H, Cohen E, Fu L, Strauss R, Vigod SN, Stukel TA, Moran K, Guttmann A, Kurdyak P, Artani A, Kopec M, Saunders NR. CMAJ. <\/em>2023; 195(36):E1210-20. 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