Prevalence of Serious Emotional Disturbance Among U.S. Children: A Meta-Analysis

Williams, Nathaniel J.; Scott, Lysandra; Aarons, Gregory A.

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“…It is estimated that .1 in 10 youth in the United States has a serious psychiatric disorder. 1 Many of these children, however, never receive treatment. 2 For those in crisis (eg, suicide ideation, aggression, and psychosis) or without accessible connections to the mental health care system, the emergency department (ED) has become the national safety net because this setting is obligated to treat all patients regardless of day or time, reason for referral, or availability of financial payment.…”

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Trends in Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Youth and Young Adults in the US

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BACKGROUND: Visits to the emergency department (ED) for psychiatric purposes are an indicator of chronic and acute unmet mental health needs. In the current study, we examined if psychiatric ED visits among individuals 6 to 24 years of age are increasing nationwide. METHODS: ED data came from the 2011-2015 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a national survey of ED visits across the United States. Psychiatric ED visits were identified by using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and reason-forvisit codes. Survey-weighted logistic regression analyses were employed to examine trends in as well as correlates of psychiatric ED visits. Data from the US Census Bureau were used to examine population rates. RESULTS: Between 2011 and 2015, there was a 28% overall increase (from 31.3 to 40.2) in psychiatric ED visits per 1000 youth in the United States. The largest increases in psychiatric ED visits per 1000 US youth were observed among adolescents (54%) and African American (53%) and Hispanic patients (91%). A large increase in suicide-related visits (by 2.5-fold) was observed among adolescents (4.6-11.7 visits per 1000 US youth). Although psychiatric ED visits were long (51% were $3 hours in length), few (16%) patients were seen by a mental health professional during their visit. CONCLUSIONS: Visits to the ED for psychiatric purposes among youth are rising across the United States. Psychiatric expertise and effective mental health treatment options, particular those used to address the rising suicide epidemic among adolescents, are needed in the ED.

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“…The reason for which could be the obvious depression, anxiety, stress observed by the both at-risk populations due to the challenges of transition from one age group to the next one (Collins & Munoz-Solomando, 2018;Nebhinani& Jain, 2019). The major challenges for adolescents constitute of bodily changes (i.e., development of secondary sex characteristics) (Kar, Choudhury, & Singh, 2015;McAteer et al, 2017;Pringle et al, 2016), peer group pressure Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 25 July 2020 doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0620.v1 (Moldes, Biton, Gonzaga, & Moneva, 2019;Singh, 2017;Tripathy, 2018), behavioral and emotional disturbances (Borba & Marin, 2018;Osman, Khalaf, Omar, & Ismail, 2019;Williams, Scott, & Aarons, 2018). The young adults, on the other hand, face challenges of transition from adolescent to adulthood (Fegert, Hauth, Banaschewski, & Freyberger, 2016;Switek & Easterlin, 2018), financial pressure (Dewilde, Hubers, & Coulter, 2018;Lennartz, Arundel, & Ronald, 2016;Stein et al, 2013), conflict at the stage of isolation vs. intimacy (Mackinnon, De Pasquale,, & Pratt, 2016), personal development (Bonnie et al, 2015), and change in outlook towards life (Switek & Easterlin, 2018).…”

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Transpersonal Gratitude, Emotional Intelligence, Life Contentment, and Mental Health Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults

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World statistics demonstrate that around 970 million people around the globe suffer from mental health problems (Ritchie & Roser, 2019), a major proportion of which comprised of adolescents and young adults (UNODC, 2018). Also, because of increased mental health issues the problems like substance use, suicide, depression, anxiety, and stress are also increasing (Armstrong, 2019; Bandelow & Michaelis, 2015; Ritchie & Roser, 2018; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC], 2019). It is thus a dire need to address the issue. The present coneptual paper proposed the role of transpersonal gratitude, emotional intelligence, and life contentment for reducing mental health risk among the adolescents and young adults.

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“…The prevalence of mental disorders in childhood has been increasing, ranging from around 13.4%, in community surveys around the world [ 4 ], up to 49% in clinical populations [ 5 ]. The US prevalence of youths with serious emotional disturbance with global impairment is about 6.36% [ 6 ]. In Brazil, studies have reported a prevalence of 30% of common mental disorders in adolescents [ 7 ] with 50% of adult mental disorders beginning before the age of 18 years [ 8 ].…”

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Psychopathology and impairment of quality of life in offspring of psychiatric inpatients in southern Brazil: a preliminary study

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Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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ObjectiveTo evaluate the quality of life and risk of psychopathology in the infant and adolescent offspring of psychiatric inpatients from a general hospital unit.MethodsOffspring (4–17 years old) of psychiatric inpatients were interviewed face-to-face and assessed with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Interviews with caregivers and the hospitalized parents were also performed. The quality of life of the offspring, psychopathology of their hospitalized parents, and their current caregivers were investigated in order to evaluate any associations between these aspects and psychopathology in the offspring.ResultsThirty-four children of 25 patients were evaluated, 38.2% of which presented high risk for some type of psychopathology including hyperactivity or attention deficit disorder (38.2%), behavioral disorders (20.6%), and emotional disorders (17.6%). While only the minority of these children (17.6%) were already receiving mental health treatment, another 41.2% of them exhibited some degree of symptoms and were only referred for specialized assessment. Additionally, 61.8% of the children were reported to be suffering from some impairment in their quality of life.ConclusionThis preliminary study found a high rate of psychopathology in children of psychiatric inpatients. These results corroborate previous evidence that children and adolescents with parents with severe psychopathology are at high risk for developing mental disorders. Public policies and standard protocols of action directed to this population are urgently needed, especially for offspring of parents that are hospitalized in psychiatric in-patient units of general hospitals.

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Prevalence of Serious Emotional Disturbance Among U.S. Children: A Meta-Analysis

Abstract: These estimates of SED are sufficiently precise to meaningfully guide clinical decision making, mental health policy, and consideration of child psychiatry workforce needs in the United States.

Cited by 51 publications

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Trends in Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Youth and Young Adults in the US

Trends in Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits Among Youth and Young Adults in the US

Transpersonal Gratitude, Emotional Intelligence, Life Contentment, and Mental Health Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Psychopathology and impairment of quality of life in offspring of psychiatric inpatients in southern Brazil: a preliminary study

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