Incidence of Emergency Department Visits for Sexual Abuse Among Youth in Hong Kong Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Janet Yuen Ha Wong; Luke Y F Luk; Tsz Fung Yip; Teddy Tai Loy Lee; Abraham Ka Chung Wai; Joshua W K Ho

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36278

Incidence of Emergency Department Visits for Sexual Abuse Among Youth in Hong Kong Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2236278. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36278.

Authors

Janet Yuen Ha Wong^{1

2}, Luke Y F Luk^{3

4}, Tsz Fung Yip^{3

4}, Teddy Tai Loy Lee⁵, Abraham Ka Chung Wai^{5

6}, Joshua W K Ho^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Nursing and Health Studies, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
² School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
³ School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁴ Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited (D 2 4H), Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁶ Department of Accident and Emergency, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study assesses the incidence of emergency department (ED) visits in Hong Kong, China, for sexual abuse among youth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Emergency Service, Hospital
Hong Kong / epidemiology
Humans
Incidence
Pandemics
Sex Offenses*