Healio (7/20, Weldon) reported, “Youth suicidality unexpectedly declined in the United States during school closures for COVID-19,” investigators concluded after studying “national data on 73,123 emergency department visits and hospitalizations for suicidality among children aged 10 to 12 and adolescents aged 13 to 18 years who were commercially insured from Jan. 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, 2021.” The findings were published online July 19 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Youth suicidality unexpectedly fell during school closures for COVID-19,”Rose Weldon, Healio , July 20, 2023