Importance There is a growing body of high-quality cohort-based research that has
examined changes in child and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic vs …

Many scholars assert that Indigenous peoples across the globe suffer a disproportionate
burden of mental illness. Research indicates that colonialism and its associated processes …

Objective To characterize youth who use the emergency department (ED) as a “first contact”
for mental health (MH) problems. Method This was a population-based cross-sectional …

Objective: Little is known about mental health service use among Canadian children and
youth. Our objective was to examine temporal trends in mental health service use across …

Objectives While recent studies have demonstrated an overall increase in psychiatric visits
in the emergency department (ED), none have focused on a nationally representative …

Mental and behavioral health (MBH) visits of children and youth to emergency departments
are increasing in the United States. Reasons for these visits range from suicidal ideation …

Background: Previous studies have found that race is associated with emergency
department triage scores, raising concerns about potential health care inequity. As part of a …

Video Abstract OBJECTIVES To examine how outpatient mental health (MH) follow-up after
a pediatric MH emergency department (ED) discharge varies by patient characteristics and …

OBJECTIVES: Repeat visits represent up to 45% of mental health (MH) presentations to
emergency departments (EDs) and are associated with higher health care costs. We aimed …

Background Despite the high number of children treated in emergency departments, patient
safety risks in this setting are not well quantified. Our objective was to estimate the risk and …