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Pediatric mental health (MH) emergency department visits were lower during the late pandemic period than prepandemic.

Did the alterations to daily life and economic stressors induced by the COVID-19 pandemic aggravate the already existing crisis of firearm injuries among US children and adolescents, a new study investigates.

Transgender and other gender-diverse youth who visited the emergency department at a single institution had more than five times greater odds of a positive suicide screening.

Fewer than 40% of children with firearm injury receive mental health services.

TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer than 40 percent of children with firearm injury receive mental health (MH) services, according to a study published online June 5 in

More than one-quarter of children with an ED visit for mental health return to the ED or are hospitalized within 6 months.

We are seeing ever stronger need for centers willing and able to provide actual mental health assessment and treatment for people right off the street, said one child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Rates of youth suicides at the county level increased as mental health professional shortages increased, according to data from more than 5000 youth suicides across the US.

Mental health professional workforce shortages are associated with increased youth suicides.

Mental health workforce shortage linked to increased suicide rate and increased youth firearm suicide rate.