Center for Gender-Specific Medicine, Biomarkers Unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, 00161, Italy.
Biomarkers Unit, Center for Gender-Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, Rome, 299 - 00161, Italy.
Ital J Pediatr. 2023 Apr 26;49(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s13052-023-01443-6.
Social distancing and quarantine imposed by the authority during the COVID-19 pandemic caused restrictions, which had a negative impact on eating behavior, especially among adolescents. We proposed a retrospective study aimed to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders risk and symptoms.
In this study, a group of 127 pediatric patients (117 females and 10 males) with eating disorders admitted to the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital of Rome (Italy), in the period between August 2019 and April 2021, was analyzed. All patient data were collected from patients' electronic medical records.
We found that 80.3% of patients were at the onset of eating disorders and that 26% of patients had familiarity for psychotic disorders. Often these patients had comorbidities and alterations in blood parameters such as leukocytopenia, neutropenia, hypovitaminosis and hormonal problems that could affect their future.
Our findings could provide a framework for developing clinical and educational interventions to mitigate the short- and long-term negative impact of the pandemic on adolescent future health.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,当局实施的社交距离和隔离措施限制了人们的行动,对饮食行为产生了负面影响,尤其是在青少年中。我们提出了一项回顾性研究,旨在评估 COVID-19 大流行对饮食障碍风险和症状的影响。
本研究分析了 2019 年 8 月至 2021 年 4 月期间在意大利罗马 Bambino Gesù 儿童医院收治的 127 名患有饮食障碍的儿科患者(女性 117 名,男性 10 名)的数据。所有患者的数据均从患者的电子病历中收集。
我们发现 80.3%的患者处于饮食障碍的发病初期,26%的患者有精神障碍家族史。这些患者经常伴有共病和血液参数改变,如白细胞减少、中性粒细胞减少、维生素缺乏和激素问题,这些可能会影响他们的未来。
我们的研究结果可以为制定临床和教育干预措施提供框架,以减轻大流行对青少年未来健康的短期和长期负面影响。