Chief Healthcare Executive April 10, 2024
The severity of mental health emergencies is rising, as young people are spending longer periods in emergency departments, a study finds.
Researchers continue to find troubling indicators of mental health challenges among America’s young people stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
More girls continue to show up in emergency departments with mental health needs, even in the latter stages of the pandemic, according to findings published April 2 in Academic Emergency Medicine.
In addition, researchers found young people were spending longer amounts of time in hospital emergency departments for mental health reasons. The study found a sharp increase in the number of kids spending more than 12 hours in emergency departments.
Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, the study’s lead author and an emergency...
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