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Children’s mental health hospital throughout COVID-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

O. Shchedrinskaya ,
A. Basova  and
M. Bebtschuk
O. Shchedrinskaya*
Affiliation:
Science, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Basova
Affiliation:
Science, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
M. Bebtschuk
Affiliation:
Science, Moscow State Budgetary Health Care Institution “Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents named after G.E.Sukhareva of Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children.

Objectives

Children with mental health issues are heavily dependent upon the attitude of their caregivers towards disease control and prevention. There is also a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in the mental health clinics (hospitals) for children.

Methods

The data from the Municipal Department of Health and Medical records of patients who were treated at the clinic from January to June in 2019 were compared. Statistical processing was carried out using the Chi-Square for 2 x 2 Contingency Table method.

Results

The study demonstrated the statistically significant difference in the types of mental health conditions that require more attention and in-patient emergency treatment options during the pandemic, including decompensation, exacerbation or manifestation of endogenous diseases, anorexia nervosa and suicidal manifestations. To prevent the spread of infection, a specific separate clinical unit was created for patients with severe mental health disorders and symptoms of COVID-19. Additionally, multiple changes were implemented in treatment protocols, staff duties and interactions with the patients’ caregivers.

Conclusions

There was a higher demand for in-patient emergency treatment for children with severe mental health disorders in 2020, as compared to 2019. Timely introduced anti-epidemic measures made it possible to avoid outbreaks of COVID-19 in the children’s psychiatric hospital.

Keywords

epidemiologyChild Psychiatrymental health clinicpsychiatric unit
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S274 - S275
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