An Adolescent-Caregiver Dyad Approach to Climate Anxiety in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and mental health research has predominantly focused on adults in non-clinical settings; investigations among youth and in clinical settings are lacking. Our objectives were to understand the relationship between adult caregiver and adolescent patient climate-anxiety and to examine caregivers' community-level concerns and their association with adolescent climate anxiety. This cross-sectional study occurred in a single-center pediatric emergency department (ED) and data collection spanned January to December 2024. Exposures included adolescent demographic factors (age group, sex, race and ethnicity, insurance payor) and adolescent and caregiver general anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) scores, as well as caregiver perspectives captured on (1) the climate change anxiety scale (CCAS)

SUBMITTER: Assaf RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12789392 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature