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AUTHOR(S) Laura Hart; Fareeda W. Haamid; Cynthia Holland-Hall (et al.)
Testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) decreased during the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Less is known about the extent to which screening of asymptomatic adolescents for STIs was specifically affected. Our aim was to describe the impacts of early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on asymptomatic STI screening and overall STI testing among adolescent females aged 13 to 19. We hypothesized that screening would decrease more than overall testing. This study evaluated claims data from a pediatric accountable care organization responsible for approximately 40,000 adolescent females. It assessed rates of asymptomatic screening and overall testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea in this population, comparing the early pandemic to pre-pandemic levels.
AUTHOR(S) Rosella Saulle; Manuela De Sario; Antonella Bena (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Jacob Kornbeck; Sladjana Petkovic; Roland Naul
AUTHOR(S) Berta Raventós; Alicia Abellan; Andrea Pistillo (et al.)
This study aimed to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trends in incidence rates (IR) of diagnoses of eating disorders (ED) among adolescents and young adults. Population-based cohort study using primary care records of people aged 10–24 years between January, 2016 and December, 2021 in Catalonia, Spain. IRs were calculated monthly and grouped by the different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia: (1) the pre-lockdown (January, 2016–February, 2020), (2) lockdown (March–June, 2020) and, (3) post-lockdown (July, 2020–December, 2021) periods. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) relative to the corresponding periods in 2018–2019 were calculated.
AUTHOR(S) Ismail Abuallut; Reham E. Ajeebi; Alanoud Y. Bahari (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Carlos Mata; Marcos Onofre; João Martins (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Ludmila Zhuravleva; Elena Zarubina; Aleksey Ruchkin (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Gary Kwok; Samantha Reese; Sanjana Dugad (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Patrick D. M. C. Katoto; Amanda S. Brand; Liliane N. Byamungu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Yoshika Saito; Kana Yamamoto; Morihito Takita (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Orit Shapiro; Riki Tesler; Sharon Barak (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Mengyao Shi; Yuqing Shi; Zuhang Zhao (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Colleen C. Schreyer; Irina A. Vanzhula; Angela S. Guarda
The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased hospitalization rates and worsened symptom severity in patients with eating disorders (ED), but most studies focused exclusively on adolescents. Further, research evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on response to inpatient treatment for ED is limited. This study aimed to compare demographic characteristics, symptom severity at admission, and discharge outcomes for adult and adolescent inpatients with EDs admitted before and after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The post-COVID cohort was expected to report elevated symptomatology and poorer response to treatment compared to the pre-COVID cohort and this effect was expected to be amplified for adolescents. Patients were consecutively hospitalized adults and adolescents treated in a specialized behavioral integrated inpatient-partial hospitalization program for eating disorders between March 2018 and March 2022 (N = 261).
AUTHOR(S) Maria C. L. Oliveira; Enrico A. Colosimo; Mariana A. Vasconcelos (et al.)
There have been conflicting reports on the relationship between asthma and COVID-19 severity. This study aimed to compare the risk of death among children with asthma and healthy peers hospitalized due to COVID-19. It carried out an analysis of all pediatric patients 2–19 years of age with asthma and COVID-19 registered in Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System-Gripe, a Brazilian nationwide surveillance database, between February 2020 and March 2022. The primary outcome was time to death, which was evaluated considering discharge as a competitive risk using the cumulative incidence function.
AUTHOR(S) Heba Jafar Sabbagh; Wafaa Abdelaziz; Maryam Quritum (et al.)
Oral diseases are features of COVID-19 infection. There is, however, little known about oral diseases associated with COVID-19 in adolescents and young adults (AYA). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess oral lesions’ association with COVID-19 infection in AYA; and to identify if sex and age will modify these associations. Data was collected for this cross-sectional study between August 2020 and January 2021 from 11-to-23 years old participants in 43-countries using an electronic validated questionnaire developed in five languages. Data collected included information on the dependent variables (the presence of oral conditions- gingival inflammation, dry mouth, change in taste and oral ulcers), independent variable (COVID-19 infection) and confounders (age, sex, history of medical problems and parents’ educational level). Multilevel binary logistic regression was used for analysis.
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