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Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm among adolescents in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic | CMAJ (www.cmaj.ca)
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The average quarterly percentage of emergency department visits for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm relative to all-cause emergency department visits was 2.30% during the prepandemic period and 3.52% during the pandemic period. The level (0.08%, 95% confidence interval [CI] โˆ’0.79% to 0.95%) or trend (0.07% per quarter, 95% CI โˆ’0.14% to 0.28%) of this percentage did not change significantly between periods. The average quarterly percentage of hospital admissions for the composite outcome relative to all-cause admissions was 7.18% during the prepandemic period and 8.96% during the pandemic period. This percentage showed no significant change in level (โˆ’0.70%, 95% CI โˆ’1.90% to 0.50%), but did show a significantly increasing trend (0.36% per quarter; 95% 0.07% to 0.65%) during the pandemic versus prepandemic periods, specifically among females aged 10โ€“14 years (0.76% per quarter, 95% CI 0.22% to 1.30%) and females aged 15โ€“18 years (0.56% per quarter, 95% CI 0.31% to 0.81%).

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