Mental health diagnoses among US children, youth continue to rise at alarming rate
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
The number of children and adolescents visiting the nation's emergency departments due to mental health concerns continued to rise at an alarming rate from 2012 through 2016, with mental health diagnoses for non-Latino blacks outpacing such diagnoses among youth of other racial/ethnic groups, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study.