According to MedPage Today (5/10, Ruprecht), “over the last decade, more than half of young adults with depression reported not receiving treatment…and important reasons were related to cost and stigma.” Researchers arrived at these conclusions after examining survey data from “more than 21,000 patients diagnosed with a” major depressive episode (MDE) “over the previous 12 months using DSM-IV criteria.” While “cost of care was the most common problem for young patients with” MDEs, during this same period, “the proportion of young people saying they had inadequate insurance for treatment also increased from 7.2% to 15.8%.” Further “barriers to care included people not knowing where to go for treatment, worrying about confidentiality, not wanting to take medication, and not having the time.” The findings were published online May 10 in a research letter in JAMA Network Open.
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