Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Routine Depression Screening for Adolescents in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Approximately one-fifth of adolescents in the US experience a major depressive episode each year. Universal depression screening for adolescents is recommended as part of routine pediatric primary care, but its cost-effectiveness is unclear.

Objective

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of universal routine depression screening in adolescent primary care compared with usual care.

Design, setting, and participants

This economic evaluation used a decision-analytic model with an embedded state-transition submodel and annual transitions. A hypothetical population of 1000 adolescents and young adults from ages 12 to 22 years, including 12 demographic groups of disaggregated combinations of sex (female and male) and race or ethnicity (American Indian or Alaska Nat

SUBMITTER: Doan TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12048853 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature