{"id":1738620,"date":"2022-11-14T17:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738620"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:32:51","slug":"study-youth-hospital-visits-for-suicidal-thoughts-rose-59-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-youth-hospital-visits-for-suicidal-thoughts-rose-59-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Youth Hospital Visits For Suicidal Thoughts Rose 59% Since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-youth-hospital-visits-for-suicidal-thoughts-rose-59-since-2016%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A new study revealed the rise in children going to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, which began to go up before the COVID pandemic and lockdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Pediatrics journal <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article\/doi\/10.1542\/peds.2022-056793\/189943\/Trends-in-Suicidal-Ideation-Related-Emergency?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> the findings on Monday, which used information from Illinois hospitals Northwestern University and the Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago. The analysts looked at visits to the emergency department for suicidal ideation from January 2016 to 2021 for young people between the ages of 5 to 19 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From 2016-2017 to 2019-2021, the visits went up 59%. Visits where suicidal ideation was the primary diagnosis also correspondingly went up from 34.6% to 44.3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the study shows that such visits went up in Illinois in 2019, the pandemic also appears to have played a role. Hospitalizations rose 57% between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The children were 84% less likely to be admitted to the hospital if suicidal ideation was their main diagnosis, and had a higher likelihood of being hospitalized if they had other mental health indicators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt just really highlights how mental health concerns were really a problem before the pandemic. I mean, we saw this huge increase in [emergency department] visits for kids of all ages, honestly, in 2019, and it\u2019s very concerning,\u201d study co-author Dr. Audrey Brewer said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/14\/health\/suicide-er-visits-kids\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cWe saw more kids than we typically do that we \u2026 wouldn\u2019t necessarily have thought would have problems about suicidal ideation. We saw 5-year-olds. To see them presenting to emergency departments for mental health or for suicide-ideation-related visits is very concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is like smoke,\u201d senior author Joe Feinglass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.q13fox.com\/news\/us-children-er-visits-suicidal-thoughts-increasing-study-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> about the data. \u201cAnd there\u2019s definitely a fire, but we don\u2019t yet know and are not yet addressing what is causing the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brewer said lots of the children who were put in the hospital for suicidal thoughts also struggled with other mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety and substance use. She said guardians should be aware of certain indicators of suicidal thoughts, such as if a child is struggling at school or starts to become isolated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey may act out or have problems sleeping. Irritability and being more withdrawn and isolating themselves are a lot of things that we oftentimes will think about,\u201d Brewer said. \u201cIt\u2019s important for parents to feel empowered to really sit back and listen to their kids and talk to them. Really try to relate and understand what is going on with them and help promote positive relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe really need to develop more of a strategy to help support all kinds in different ways and really focus on some of those traumas and social influences of health,\u201d Brewer added. \u201cWe need to make sure more children will have safe places to grow and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although the study was done in Illinois, specialists reportedly said this isn\u2019t confined to one area in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOver the last nine years, where we would see about anywhere from one to two patients a day that were having a behavioral health crisis, now we\u2019re seeing 20-plus a day,\u201d Dr. Nicholas Holmes, senior vice president and chief operating officer at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital in San Diego, said. He was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n<p><em>The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24\/7 at 1-800-273-8255.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study revealed the rise in children going to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, which began to go up before the COVID pandemic and lockdowns.\u00a0 The Pediatrics journal published the findings on Monday, which used information from Illinois hospitals Northwestern University and the Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago. 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