National Trends in Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Youth, 2011-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There has been increasing concern about the burden of mental health problems among youth, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Trends in mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits are an important indicator of unmet outpatient mental health needs.

Objective

To estimate annual trends in mental health-related ED visits among US children, adolescents, and young adults between 2011 and 2020.

Design, setting, and participants

Data from 2011 to 2020 in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, an annual cross-sectional national probability sample survey of EDs, was used to examine mental health-related visits for youths aged 6 to 24 years (unweighted = 49 515).

Main outcomes and measures

Mental health-related ED visits included v

SUBMITTER: Bommersbach TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature