Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic
Background:To explore changes in the first clinic visits in adolescents diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or childhood mood disorders from January 2019 to May 2022 based on outpatient records from a large psychiatric hospital in China.Methods:The medical records of adolescents aged 1...
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| description | Background:To explore changes in the first clinic visits in adolescents diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or childhood mood disorders from January 2019 to May 2022 based on outpatient records from a large psychiatric hospital in China.Methods:The medical records of adolescents aged 12–17 years at their first clinic visits from January 2019 to May 2022 were collected at Ningbo Kangning Hospital. Adolescents primarily diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or childhood affective disorders were included in the present study.Results:The results showed that the number of adolescents at their first clinic visits diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and childhood affective disorders according to the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) increased each year, with an increase from 2019 to 2020 being greater than that from 2020 to 2021. The mean age at first diagnosis showed a significant trend towards younger age (P < 0.001). The mean age when boys did their first clinic visits in 2021 was significantly younger than that in 2019 (P < 0.05) and the mean age of girls in 2021 was significantly younger than that in 2019 (P < 0.001) and in 2020 (P < 0.001). No difference was found in terms of sex (Chi-square = 7.538, P > 0.05).Conclusion:The number of first clinic visits by adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of universal, selective, and indicated prevention and treatment strategies to buffer children and adolescents from negative mental health outcomes is imperative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8dc9ff3992e74b12b366f736df2f00cb2023-12-20T09:52:41ZengTsinghua University PressStress and Brain2709-13252709-03882023-10-0132636810.26599/SAB.2022.9060034Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemicXiaoli Liu0Wenwu Zhang1Guolin Bian2Dongsheng Zhou3Department of Psychiatry, Ningbo Kangning Hospital & Affiliated Mental Health Centre, Ningbo Key Laboratory for Physical Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Psychological Disorders, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315201, ChinaDepartment of Psychiatry, Ningbo Kangning Hospital & Affiliated Mental Health Centre, Ningbo Key Laboratory for Physical Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Psychological Disorders, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315201, ChinaDepartment of Psychiatry, Ningbo Kangning Hospital & Affiliated Mental Health Centre, Ningbo Key Laboratory for Physical Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Psychological Disorders, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315201, ChinaDepartment of Psychiatry, Ningbo Kangning Hospital & Affiliated Mental Health Centre, Ningbo Key Laboratory for Physical Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Psychological Disorders, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315201, ChinaBackground:To explore changes in the first clinic visits in adolescents diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or childhood mood disorders from January 2019 to May 2022 based on outpatient records from a large psychiatric hospital in China.Methods:The medical records of adolescents aged 12–17 years at their first clinic visits from January 2019 to May 2022 were collected at Ningbo Kangning Hospital. Adolescents primarily diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or childhood affective disorders were included in the present study.Results:The results showed that the number of adolescents at their first clinic visits diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and childhood affective disorders according to the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) increased each year, with an increase from 2019 to 2020 being greater than that from 2020 to 2021. The mean age at first diagnosis showed a significant trend towards younger age (P < 0.001). The mean age when boys did their first clinic visits in 2021 was significantly younger than that in 2019 (P < 0.05) and the mean age of girls in 2021 was significantly younger than that in 2019 (P < 0.001) and in 2020 (P < 0.001). No difference was found in terms of sex (Chi-square = 7.538, P > 0.05).Conclusion:The number of first clinic visits by adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of universal, selective, and indicated prevention and treatment strategies to buffer children and adolescents from negative mental health outcomes is imperative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/SAB.2022.9060034unimodal cognitionvisiontactiletactile experience enrichmentchronic restraint stress |
| spellingShingle | Xiaoli Liu Wenwu Zhang Guolin Bian Dongsheng Zhou Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic Stress and Brain unimodal cognition vision tactile tactile experience enrichment chronic restraint stress |
| title | Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood, anxiety, or childhood affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | increased first clinic visits in adolescent patients with mood anxiety or childhood affective disorders during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | unimodal cognition vision tactile tactile experience enrichment chronic restraint stress |
| url | https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/SAB.2022.9060034 |
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