Young people experiencing emotional distress increasingly visited emergency rooms in the decade leading into the COVID pandemic, with suicide-related visits rising fivefold, a new study says.
The number of youths visiting the ER for psychiatric illnesses, drug abuse and alcohol addiction grew from 4.8 million to 7.5 million from 2011 to 2020, according to apublished Tuesday in Journal of the American Medical Association. Visits increased annually by an average of 8% over that time.
In the JAMA study, four researchers examined nationally representative data on patients aged 6-24 from an annual survey of pediatric emergency departments. The study reflects the national state of emergency in children’s mental health that leading medical organizations declared in 2021, they added.The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children’s Hospital Association noted in a declaration a pandemic-era spike in “all mental health emergencies including suspected suicide attempts” among children.
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