The New York Times (5/1, Richtel) reported, “Mental health-related visits to emergency” departments (EDs) “by children, teenagers and young adults soared from 2011 to 2020, according to” findings published online May 2 in JAMA. The study also revealed that “the sharpest increase was for suicide-related visits, which rose fivefold.” The research team arrived at these conclusions after using “data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey” to examine “the annual number of mental health-related” ED “visits by people six to 24 years old.”
Related Links:
— “Emergency Room Visits Have Risen Sharply for Young People in Mental Distress, Study Finds “Matt Richtel, The New York Times, May 1, 2023