Virtual schooling and pediatric mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In this single-site, retrospective, descriptive chart review and survey, we investigated changes in pediatric behavioral health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and the relationship between virtual schooling and hospitalized children's mental health. Subjects included patients aged 6 and 18 years during the 2015 to 2019 and 2020 to 2021 school years who received inpatient mental health care. Parents of patients admitted in 2020 to 2021 were surveyed regarding their child's schooling. We additionally described and compared subjects using descriptive data, including proxies for illness severity, and assessed how these outcomes changed during the pandemic and correlated with school modality. During the pandemic, the distribution of diagnoses changed, and some markers of severity increased. Patients in exclusively virtual school had higher rates of mood and anxiety disorders and tic disorders, and lower rates of eating and disruptive behavior disorders, than patients with recent in-person school. Further study is needed regarding the impact of virtual schooling on pediatric mental health.
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- Authors
- Leith, T. B., Forer, R., Rappaport, L., Malas, N., McCaffery, H., Sturza, J., Kullgren, K., Otto, A. K., & Monroe, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Leith, Thomas B.
- Venue
- Clinical Pediatrics
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023-11-08
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 80-88
- ISSN
- 0009-9228 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-2707
- OpenAlex
- W4388492492
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 0.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2024-01-18)
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Locations
- Clinical Pediatrics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- University of Michigan NIH-Funded T35 Short-Term Biomedical Training Program
- University of Michigan Capstone for Impact Grant
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Education › Education during COVID-19 pandemic
- Keywords
- online schooling, COVID-19 pandemic, child mental health, hospitalized children, psychiatric inpatient care, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, tic disorders, eating disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, disease severity, parent survey
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Child, Educational Status, Humans, Mental Health, Retrospective Studies, Pandemics
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