Emergency room visits for suicide attempts among minors increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of visits from youths who considered suicide also rising, researchers have found.
In a paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry on Thursday, researchers from the University of Calgary, the University of Ottawa, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Toronto’s SickKids Hospital for Sick Children, and University College Dublin conducted an analysis of 42 studies from 18 nations that looked at 11.1 million emergency department visits by children and adolescents.
The mean age of the samples was 11.7 years, with 57.6 percent of visits being girls and 43.4 percent being boys, the authors wrote….