Anxiety and depression in children increased constantly in 2016-2022

According to publicly available data from the National Survey of Children’s Health Penaldseme, children under 18 with anxiety and depression increased constantly in 2016-2022. In contrast, no growth was found at that time associated with physical health problems, such as asthma, severe headache or migraine and heart disease. The results were published in.

“” – said the main author Marie Heffernan, scientific director for quantitative sciences at Smith Child Health Recotcome, Research and Evaluation Center Catalyst in Lurie Children’s and the assistant to the pediatric professor at Northwestern University feinberg school of medicine.

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The study showed that the percentage of children with fear increased from 7.1 percent in 2016 to 10.6 percent in 2022 (last year of publicly available data). Depression increased from 3.2 percent to 4.6 percent in the same period. Add/ADHD has increased, but did not reach statistical significance, while behavioral problems or proceedings remained to a lesser extent the same percentage.

The data revealed the opposite trajectory of selected physical health problems. Asthma dropped from 8.4 percent to 6.5 percent, and serious headaches or migraines fell from 3.5 to 2.6 percent. The percentage of children with heart disease did not change during the test period.

“” – said the elderly author Michelle Macy, MD, MS, emergency medicine doctor and director Smith Child Health Countcome, research and evaluation of the center in Lurie Children’s and a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Macy has a research professor Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith for the Director of Children’s Health Research in Lurie Children’s.