Medical Xpress December 29, 2025
Anxiety has declined since the pandemic among Minnesota teens, who are still using social media even if they think they shouldn’t and consuming more energy drinks to keep up with homework and activities, according to an influential statewide survey.
Public health leaders expressed relief over the results of the 2025 Minnesota Student Survey, after seeing so many trends worsen during the last survey amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022.
While 60% of high school juniors reported that they had felt “nervous, anxious or on edge” at least once in the past two weeks, that was an improvement from 70% in 2022 and even from 62% in 2019, according to the survey results. The rate of 11th graders considering suicide was...
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