Medical Xpress October 7, 2023
When Tanner Bommersbach, M.D., and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed national records of pediatric emergency department visits, they provided essential data to describe the growing national crisis in pediatric mental health.
Their study found that from 2011 to 2020, youth visits to emergency departments for mental health reasons doubled, while the proportion of visits for suicide-related symptoms increased fivefold.
The team’s findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Bommersbach, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow, hopes the study’s results will be useful in national conversations about youth mental health.
Taking on a serious problem
Dr. Bommersbach has had a longstanding interest in children’s mental health. During high school and college, he worked in...
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