Mental health disorders among children and teenagers significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association, with teenage girls being the most at risk.
The study examined records from commercial insurance companies of over 1.7 million patients between the ages of 6 and 18 and classified insurance coding into the categories of anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, depression, and eating disorders.Each demographic category saw an increase in all four categories from January 2018 to March 2022.
Eating disorders among teenage girls “more than doubled during the pandemic,” according to the findings. Although the other age and sex categories did not see as precipitous of an increase in eating disorders, each demographic category did see an upward trend for eating disorders from before the pandemic.
These findings correlated with those of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in February that found 57% of high school girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, with 30% of female respondents having seriously contemplated suicide. Some theorize that children and teenagers were particularly vulnerable to loneliness due to school closures during the pandemic. Earlier this month, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a statement saying that the “epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an underappreciated public health crisis” across the United States.
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