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Compared With Children Taken To Psychiatric ED By Family, Those Taken By Police After 911 Call More Likely To Be Male, Older, And Black, Study Indicates

Psychiatric News (10/28) reported, “Compared with children taken to a psychiatric emergency” department (ED) “by family, those taken by police after a 911 call were more likely to be male, older, and Black,” researchers concluded in the findings of a 339-child study, the findings of which were published online Oct. 27 in the journal Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Study Highlights Children Most Likely to Be Taken to Psychiatric ER By Police After 911 Call, Psychiatric News , October 28, 2022

Number Of Mental Health Clinicians Say They Are Seeing Uptick In Young People Diagnosing Themselves With Mental Illnesses After Learning More About The Conditions Online

The New York Times (10/29, Caron) reported, “A number of mental health” clinicians “say that they are seeing an uptick in teenagers and young adults who are diagnosing themselves with mental illnesses…after learning more about the conditions online.” Should teens come “to their parents to discuss something they’ve seen on TikTok or another social media platform, it’s best to remain open and curious, experts say.” Anish Dube, MD, Chairman of the Council on Children, Adolescents and Their Families at the American Psychiatric Association, stated, “Take that as an opportunity to engage them and find out more about your teenager and some of the challenges and struggles that your teenager is going through.” Because “the information presented on social media can be inaccurate or overly simplistic…Dr. Dube also recommended pointing kids toward reliable sources like the A.P.A.’s directory of mental health topics.”

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— “Teens Turn to TikTok in Search of a Mental Health Diagnosis “Christina Caron, The New York Times, October 29, 2022

Pain, Sleep And Mood Disorders Were The Most Commonly Found Comorbidities Among Those With Narcolepsy, Study Indicates

Healio (10/27, Herpen) reports, “Pain, sleep and mood disorders were the most commonly found comorbidities among those with narcolepsy, with chronic pain being more than twice as likely to occur compared with matched controls,” researchers concluded after conducting “an electronic health record search between 2000 and 2020 to identify 2,057 individuals…who sought initial treatment for narcolepsy.” Also included in the study was a “separate control cohort of 2,057 participants” that “was propensity-score matched by birth year, age at initial treatment, sex, race, ICD code and mortality.” The findings were presented in a poster at the American Neurological Association’s annual meeting.

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— “Pain, sleep, mood disorders most common comorbidities in patients with narcolepsy “Robert Herpen, Healio, October 27, 2022

Mental Health Coverage Remains Priority For Employers, Survey Suggests

Kaiser Health News (10/27, Andrews) reports, “Almost three years after the” COVID-19 “pandemic upended workplaces, mental health coverage remains a priority for employers, according to an annual employer surveyfielded by KFF” that revealed that almost “half of surveyed large employers – those with at least 200 workers – reported that a growing share of their workers were using mental health services.” Nevertheless, nearly “a third of that group said their health plan’s network didn’t have enough behavioral” healthcare professionals “for employees to have timely access to the care they need.”

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— “Employers Are Concerned About Covering Workers’ Mental Health Needs, Survey Finds “Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News , October 27, 2022

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