Healio (2/25, Weldon) reported, “Depression was common among adolescents even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, affecting around one in every five,” investigators concluded in a study examining “six years of surveillance data” from 2013 to 2019. The study also revealed that “one in 11 U.S. children aged three to 17 were diagnosed with anxiety or” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder “in the years before the pandemic.” The findings were published Feb. 25 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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— “Depression common among adolescents even before pandemic, report finds “Rose Weldon, Healio, February 25, 2022