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Depression is becoming more common among American adults and adolescents, but a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US shows that most people are not receiving treatment.
More than one in eight people over the age of 12 in the United States have been declining in recent years. data It was published on Wednesday by the CDC’s National Health Statistics Centre. The prevalence of depression has almost doubled from 7.3% in 2015-2016 to over 13% in 2021-23.
The findings are based on the results of a federal investigation conducted between August 2021 and August 2023. Participants reported whether they had any specific symptoms associated with depression over the past 2 weeks. Responses to these validated screening questions were scored to determine whether an individual had contracted depression.
The Covid-19 pandemic has interrupted and changed operations after the investigation was reopened (including changes in dosage methods) may have affected our ability to track changes most accurately over time.
Dr. Renee Goodwin, a psychiatry epidemiologist and clinical psychologist at Columbia University, told CNN that he is less likely to report conditions that may be considered socially undesirable in face-to-face interviews than in-person or online interviews.
Still, experts have long said it was a pandemic A 2022 survey in partnership with KFF shows that the mental health challenges for many people in the United States are exacerbating, according to a 2022 survey from CNN, the country is facing a mental health crisis, but experts say there is growing awareness about mental health.
Matt Sechind, assistant director of the Johnson Depression Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, says researchers are trying to understand why depression rates have grown for the past decade or so.
“So, could we really be able to identify it more? I definitely think it has increased because I think the world is a difficult place right now,” he said. “I think there was a stressor after the stressor for a long time. I think it’s really starting to affect people.”
According to new CDC data, women are more likely to develop depression than men, and the prevalence tends to decrease with age and wealth increase.
Overall, during the 2021-23 survey, approximately 16% of women and 10% of men suffered from depression. However, more than one in four adolescent girls between the ages of 12 and 19 developed depression, data show that they are higher than any other demographic group.
Data from the CDC’s latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey showed that over half (53%) of high school girls said they almost double the share rate (28%) of boys who exceeded the same points ten years ago.
Dr. Jill Emanuele, vice president of clinical training at Child Mind Institute in New York City, told CNN in August. She was not involved in any of the CDC reports.
In the latest survey, the majority of high adults and adolescents with depression (nearly 88%) said their symptoms caused them difficulties at work, at home or at social activities, with about a third of them saying it was “very difficult.”
However, only about 40% of adults and adolescents with depression received counseling or treatment, according to a new CDC report. Women were more likely to receive treatment than men: about 43% compared to 33%.
According to another CDC, adult women are more than twice as likely to take medication for depression as adult men Report Released on Wednesday. In 2023, about 11.4% of US adults took prescription medication for depression, which amounts to over 15% of women and 7.4% of men.
Despite the higher incidence of depression among younger age groups, a new CDC report shows that middle-aged people are more likely to take prescription medications for depression than younger adults. Over 12% of adults aged 45 to 74 did so in 2023, compared to less than 11% of adults aged 18 to 44.
US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has specifically targeted certain classes of antidepressants in his recent comments. In a confirmation from the Senate this year, he incorrectly suggested that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be more addictive than heroin.
And the Trump administration strategy The Make America Healthy Commission, led by Kennedy, plans to address the prevalence and threat assessment of threats posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for children.
However, in February, healthcare data and analytics firm Truveta analyzed information from a database of millions of electronic health records to understand whether increasing mental health awareness has led to concerns about an increase in people seeking medication or overprescribing or reliance on antidepressants.
I understand that trend Prescriptions for Mental Health It has been relatively stable since 2018. Prices were chocked early in the Covid-19 pandemic, but have fallen to levels since 2018.
Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed mental health drugs, with SSRIS accounting for almost half, but Truveta found that the prescription rate trend is much more stable than the CDC seen in depression trends. And the findings do not suggest that mental health medications should be of concern.
“While increasing mental health awareness and increasing demand for care during the Covid-19 pandemic may contribute to changes in prescribing rates, our findings suggest that overall trends in mental health prescribing have been relatively stable and only slightly varied over the last few years.”
“At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health prescription rates had slightly increased, but subsequent stabilization and declines suggest that the rise is likely a temporary response to an increased mental health needs rather than a long-term shift to a higher prescription rate.”
