Study Finds Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits Dropped in 2020, Began Increasing in Mid-2021

Pharmacy Times October 13, 2023
Kennedy Ferruggia, Assistant Editor

Adolescents with mental health conditions must be monitored as they are at a higher demand for the need of mental health care.

Individuals’ mental health was challenged throughout the beginning months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to previous years, researchers found a 25% increase within mental health conditions that included major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, acute stress, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal ideation.

Published in JAMA Network, researchers found that adolescents also experienced a continued increase in mental health disorders throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that worsened in the decade prior to the lockdown. In previous years, the emergency department (ED) served as the outlet for individuals in a mental health crisis. The researchers conducted a study that assessed the changes in...

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