The rate of hospital visits for self-harm was greater than expected for Ontario youth during the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found.
The study calculated expected rates for self-harm using pre-pandemic figures, with the increase largely occurring in girls.
Girls made up almost 49 per cent of the population studied and 90 per cent of those studied lived in urban areas. They add that middle schoolers, or those between 10 and 13 years of age, "may have been particularly negatively affected by the pandemic. Although ED visits and hospital admissions were lower in youth 10 to 13 years old than those 14 to 17, the relative increase in rates during the pandemic was higher in the former, with girls in that age group seeing the largest increase.
For youth who were new to mental health care, defined as having no previous acute or outpatient claims within two years, ED rates were higher than expected at 0.05 per 1,000 compared to 0.04 per 1,000. Hospital admissions also were greater at 0.15 per 10,000 compared to 0.07 per 10,000.
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