Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19
Introduction Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children. Objectives Children with mental health issue...
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Introduction
Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children.
Objectives
Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children.
Methods
The data from the Municipal Department of Health and Medical records of patients who were treated at the clinic from January to June in 2019 were compared. Statistical processing was carried out using the Chi-Square for 2 x 2 Contingency Table method.
Results
The study demonstrated the statistically significant difference in the types of mental health conditions that require more attention and in-patient emergency treatment options during the pandemic, including decompensation, exacerbation or manifestation of endogenous diseases, anorexia nervosa and suicidal manifestations. To prevent the spread of infection, a specific separate clinical unit was created for patients with severe mental health disorders and symptoms of COVID-19. Additionally, multiple changes were implemented in treatment protocols, staff duties and interactions with the patients’ caregivers.
Conclusions
There was a higher demand for in-patient emergency treatment for children with severe mental health disorders in 2020, as compared to 2019. Timely introduced anti-epidemic measures made it possible to avoid outbreaks of COVID-19 in the children’s psychiatric hospital.
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| spelling | doaj.art-362f32e8121d480c96ac2634592a54172023-11-17T05:07:31ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S274S27510.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.737Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19O. Shchedrinskaya0A. Basova1M. Bebtschuk2Science, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian FederationScience, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian FederationScience, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation Introduction Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children. Objectives Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children. Methods The data from the Municipal Department of Health and Medical records of patients who were treated at the clinic from January to June in 2019 were compared. Statistical processing was carried out using the Chi-Square for 2 x 2 Contingency Table method. Results The study demonstrated the statistically significant difference in the types of mental health conditions that require more attention and in-patient emergency treatment options during the pandemic, including decompensation, exacerbation or manifestation of endogenous diseases, anorexia nervosa and suicidal manifestations. To prevent the spread of infection, a specific separate clinical unit was created for patients with severe mental health disorders and symptoms of COVID-19. Additionally, multiple changes were implemented in treatment protocols, staff duties and interactions with the patients’ caregivers. Conclusions There was a higher demand for in-patient emergency treatment for children with severe mental health disorders in 2020, as compared to 2019. Timely introduced anti-epidemic measures made it possible to avoid outbreaks of COVID-19 in the children’s psychiatric hospital. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821007379/type/journal_articleepidemiologyChild Psychiatrymental health clinicpsychiatric unit |
| spellingShingle | O. Shchedrinskaya A. Basova M. Bebtschuk Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 European Psychiatry epidemiology Child Psychiatry mental health clinic psychiatric unit |
| title | Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 |
| title_full | Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 |
| title_short | Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19 |
| title_sort | children s mental health hospital throughout covid 19 |
| topic | epidemiology Child Psychiatry mental health clinic psychiatric unit |
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