An influential panel of experts say children should be screened for anxiety and depression, but not necessarily for suicide risk.
An influential panel of experts are recommending that children as young as 8 get routinely screened for anxiety. The recommendation adds to their previous guidance that children 12 or older should be screened for depression. However, they refrained from advising that children younger than 11 get depression screening or that children in general be. Though the USPSTF is under the umbrella of the U.S.
One of the areas covered by the USPSTF is the type of mental health services that should be offered to young children and teens during health care visits. In 2016, they recommended that children over the age of 12 be routinely screened for clinical depression. Their latest draft guidelines,to be screened for anxiety as well. Both guidelines are for children who aren’t visibly experiencing or reporting symptoms of anxiety and depression.
“To address the critical need for supporting the mental health of children and adolescents in primary care, the Task Force looked at the evidence on screening for anxiety, depression, and suicide risk,” said task force member Martha Kubik, a registered nurse and researcher at George Mason University, in afrom the USPSTF.
The evidence, for now at least, is less certain for other areas of screening, according to the task force . As before, they ruled that there isn’t enough data to know whether or not suicide risk screening for children in general is beneficial, or for widespread depression screening of children under 11. They’re calling for more research on these topics specifically.
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