Kids More Likely Than Adults to be Diagnosed With Mental Health Disorder

A new study suggests that kids are becoming more and more likely than adults to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder. The researchers looked at the data of almost 450,000 patient visits to doctor’s offices in the U.S. between 1995 and 2010. From 1995 to 1998 and 2007 to 2010, the visits that led to the diagnosis of mental health issues increased faster for patients under the age of 21 than it did for adults. The study, which was published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, also found that the number of visits to psychiatrists increased faster for kids than it did for adults. “Over the last several years, there has been an expansion in mental health care to children and adolescents in office-based medical practice,” http://www.sarticles.net/article/prana-in-the-yogic-teachings

 said Dr. Mark Olfson of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. According to the researchers, this increase, along with the rise of the number of prescriptions for psychiatric drugs, allows healthcare professionals to better help young people in their mental health disorders. “Yet it also poses risks related to adverse medication effects, delivery of non-evidence-based care and poorly coordinated services,” the researchers said. - See more at: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/forums/range/read.php?9,26989