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CDC: More Teenage Girls in ER for Mental Health Conditions During Pandemic

By Kathleen McCarthy posted 08-11-2022 12:16

  

The roughly two years since the beginning of the pandemic have seen a significant increase in teenage girls visiting emergency rooms due to mental health conditions, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found that the proportion of emergency room visits made by girls aged 12 to 17 doubled for eating disorders and approximately tripled for tic disorders during the pandemic when compared with 2019. It also reported that adolescent girls’ emergency room visits rose for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in 2021 and for anxiety, trauma and stressor-related disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in January 2022 in comparison with 2019.

SOURCE: By Chloe Folmar, The Hill, Feb. 22, 2022 bit.ly/3aKPF9A


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