The number of teenage girls visiting emergency rooms for eating disorders, self-cutting and suicide attempts soared in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study has found.
The number of teenage girls visiting emergency rooms for eating disorders, self-cutting and suicide attempts soared in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, aSix researchers published the study Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. They examined the anonymous private insurance records of 4.1 million children ages 5 to 17 admitted to hospital emergency departments from March 2019 to February 2022.
“This contrast is consistent with prior literature showing adolescent females have been more negatively impacted by the pandemic than males,” the researchers wrote. “Multiple factors likely contribute to females’ increase in mental distress, including higher pandemic-related stress, more pandemic-related disruptions to school, and emotional abuse in the home.”
The study also found that children in extreme mental distress waited longer to move from hospital emergency wards to inpatient psychiatric care as a surge in demand overwhelmed mental health providers. In a May 23 advisory, the surgeon general called social media “an important driver of that crisis,” noting that 95% of teens aged 13 to 17 use social media and one-third say they use it “almost constantly.”
“The kids are very, very sick, and they’re not getting better as quickly as they used to,” said Dr. John V. Campo, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. “I can’t tell you why. I don’t know why.” He said that while lifeline contacts from youths “increased steadily” during the pandemic, boys didn’t end up in the ER as often as girls because they were likelier to use guns in suicide attempts.
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