Reuters (2/11, Rapaport) reports, “Roughly in six U.S. kids have at least one mental [illness], and only about half of them receive treatment from a mental health professional,” researchers found.
HealthDay (2/11, Gordon) reports investigators arrived at this conclusion after examining survey data “from a nationally representative group of more than 50,000 children under 18 years of age.” The findingswere published online Feb. 11 in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
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— “One in six U.S. kids have mental health disorders, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, February 11, 2019