Injuries from gunshots and motor vehicle crashes increased among children and teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those residing in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to new research being presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023.
Injuries from gunshots and motor vehicle crashes increased among children and teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those residing in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to new research being presented at thePandemic-related stressors appear to have worsened an already severe problem, study authors report.
SDOH are non-medical factors, such as socioeconomic status and crime, that influence health outcomes,. SDOH, including neighborhood environment, can worsen a child's injury risk and postinjury outcomes.traumatic injuriesThe study included more than 4,000 trauma patients up to 18 years old who received treatment at Nemours Children's Health from January 2018 to August 2022.
For all patients, study findings showed that during the pandemic, pediatric injuries happened most often fromMotor vehicle–related injuries increased from 12.7% of all pediatric trauma cases before COVID-19 to 14.3% early COVID and 18.6% late COVID. The number of gunshot wounds increased from 1.2% pre-COVID to 2.6% early COVID and 2% late COVID.
Dr. Pace hopes their study will encourage researchers elsewhere to study the effects of the pandemic and SDOH on pediatric trauma. These findings add to growing evidence that pandemic-related stressors affected population-level health, according to the study authors.
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