Monday 16 May 2022 10:01 PM Covid lockdowns and school closures ruined Aussie kids' mental health trends now
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Pandemic lockdowns and restrictions adversely affected children and young people, with a rise in self-harm cases admitted to hospitals.
Research published last week from the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group found a marked increase in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) admissions following deliberate self-harm.
The authors of the study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open say this coincided with the COVID-19 lockdowns and social restrictions over the past two years.
Of the 813 study patients aged 12 to 17 analysed between January 2015 and June 2021, 230 were admitted during the first 15 months of pandemic from April 2020 to June 2021.
'At the onset of the pandemic, monthly incidence of (deliberate self-harm) ICU admissions per
