HCP Live October 5, 2023
Race/ethnicity, parental education, household income, housing tenure, household food sufficiency, and health insurance coverage are all factors linked to the likelihood of mental health challenges in children and adolescents.
Children and adolescents are susceptible to poor mental health symptoms based on varying understated geographic and sociodemographic factors, according to a new study led by Junxiu Liu, PhD, of the department of population health science and policy at Icahn School of Medicine.1
Previous research has informed the well-understood commonality of mental health issues among high school-aged students. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report found more than one-third of high school students faced mental health challenges during the pandemic.2 Also, a Pew Research Center survey discovered 40% of US...
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