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Persistent Disparities in Pediatric Health Care Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted traditional health care, including pediatric health care. We described the impact of the pandemic on disparities in pediatric health care engagement.

Methods

Using a population-based cross-sectional time-series design, we compared monthly ambulatory care visit volume and completion rates (completed vs no-show and cancelled visits) among pediatric patients aged 0-21 years in 4 states in the mid-Atlantic United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020-February 2021) with the same period before the pandemic (March 2019-February 2020). We used unadjusted odds ratios, stratified by visit type (telehealth or in-person) and sociodemographic characteristics (child race and ethnicity, caregiver primary language, geocoded Child Opportunity Index, and rurality).

Results

We examined 1 556 548 scheduled ambulatory care visits for a diverse pediatric patient population. Visit volume and completion rates (mean, 70.1%) decreased during the first months of the pandemic but returned to prepandemic levels by June 2020. Disparities in in-person visit completion rates among non-Hispanic Black versus non-Hispanic White patients (64.9% vs 74.3%), patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged versus advantaged communities as measured by Child Opportunity Index (65.8% vs 76.4%), and patients in rural versus urban neighborhoods (66.0% vs 70.8%) were the same during the remainder of the first year of the pandemic as compared with the previous year. Concurrent with large increases in telehealth (0.5% prepandemic, 19.0% during the pandemic), telehealth completion rates increased.

Conclusions

Disparities in pediatric visit completion rates that existed before the pandemic persisted during the pandemic. These findings underscore the need for culturally tailored practices to reduce disparities in pediatric health care engagement.

SUBMITTER: Phan TT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10076159 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Persistent Disparities in Pediatric Health Care Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Phan Thao-Ly T TT Enlow Paul T PT Lewis Amanda M AM Arasteh Kamyar K Hildenbrand Aimee K AK Price Julia J Schultz Corinna L CL Reynolds Victoria V Kazak Anne E AE Alderfer Melissa A MA

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 20230404 4

<h4>Objective</h4>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted traditional health care, including pediatric health care. We described the impact of the pandemic on disparities in pediatric health care engagement.<h4>Methods</h4>Using a population-based cross-sectional time-series design, we compared monthly ambulatory care visit volume and completion rates (completed vs no-show and cancelled visits) among pediatric patients aged 0-21 years in 4 states in the mid-Atlantic United States during the first ye ...[more]

PMID: 37013845

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Persistent Disparities in Pediatric Health Care Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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