Psychiatric News (11/17) reports, “Youth with a psychiatric illness who experience at least one adverse social determinant of health – such as child welfare placement, abuse, or neglect – have a significantly increased risk of self-harm,” investigators concluded after analyzing “Ohio Medicaid claims data to identify” 244,958 “youth aged 10 to 17 who had at least one claim with a primary psychiatric diagnosis between April 2016 and December 2018.” The findings were published online Nov. 15 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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— “Adverse Social Determinants of Health Associated With Self-Harm Among Youth, Psychiatric News, November 17, 2022