Blackburn Ruth M, Phillips Owen Jacquie, Downs Johnny, Gilbert Ruth
UCL Institute of Health Informatics, London, UK.
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Br J Psychiatry. 2022 Aug 25:1-3. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2022.113.
This study examines health service indicators of stress-related presentations (relating to pain, mental illness, psychosomatic symptoms and self-harm) in adolescents of secondary school age, using Hospital Episode Statistics data for England. We examined weekly time series data for three academic years spanning the time before (2018-2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), including the first lockdown when schools were closed to the majority of pupils. For all secondary school children, weekly stress presentations dropped following school closures. However, patterns of elevated stress during school terms re-established after reopening, with girls aged 11-15 showing an overall increase compared with pre-pandemic rates.
本研究利用英格兰的医院 Episode 统计数据,调查了中学年龄青少年与压力相关症状(与疼痛、精神疾病、身心症状和自我伤害有关)的健康服务指标。我们研究了三个学年的每周时间序列数据,涵盖了新冠疫情之前(2018 - 2019 年)和期间(2019 - 2020 年及 2020 - 2021 年),包括学校对大多数学生关闭的首次封锁期。对于所有中学生而言,学校关闭后每周的压力相关症状有所下降。然而,重新开学后学期期间压力升高的模式再次出现,11 - 15 岁的女孩与疫情前相比总体有所增加。