Lockdown stringency and paediatric self-harm presentations during COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective cohort study

Background Lockdown during the pandemic has had significant impacts on public mental health. Previous studies suggest an increase in self-harm and suicide in children and adolescents. There has been little research on the roles of stringent lockdown. Aims To investigate the mediating and predictive...

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Main Authors: Ben Hoi-ching Wong, Mehrak Vaezinejad, Paul L. Plener, Tauseef Mehdi, Liana Romaniuk, Elizabeth Barrett, Haseena Hussain, Alexandra Lloyd, Jovanka Tolmac, Manish Rao, Sulagna Chakrabarti, Sara Carucci, Omer S. Moghraby, Rachel Elvins, Farah Rozali, Ereni Skouta, Fiona McNicholas, Benjamin Baig, Dejan Stevanovic, Peter Nagy, Chiara Davico, Hassan Mirza, Evren Tufan, Fatima Youssef, Ben Meadowcroft, Dennis Ougrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-03-01
Series:BJPsych Open
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472422000412/type/journal_article