{"id":4859,"date":"2023-10-04T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2023-10-04T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:06:28","slug":"kids-mental-health-spending-soared-26-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/04\/kids-mental-health-spending-soared-26-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids\u2019 Mental Health Spending Soared 26% During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maryroeloffs\/2023\/10\/03\/kids-mental-health-spending-soared-26-during-pandemic-led-by-adhd-and-anxiety\/?sh=2ff2ef6c7121\">Forbes<\/a> Anxiety, adjustment disorders and ADHD are largely to blame for a sharp 26% rise in mental healthcare costs for children in the two-and-a-half years following the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2023.36979\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a>\u00a0out Tuesday found\u2014the latest evidence of the pandemic\u2019s dire impact on both kids\u2019 and adults\u2019 mental health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, said school closures, social isolation, distancing and the deadly effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on families &#8220;severely tested the mental health of children and youths&#8221; when the pandemic broke out in early 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An analysis of telehealth, in-person, and overall pediatric mental health services and spending in the U.S. from January of 2019 to August of 2022 found those under age 19 spent 26.1% more on mental healthcare costs during and after the pandemic than they did before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early months of the pandemic saw pediatric patients use telehealth services 30 times more often than they did before, the study published in the&nbsp;<em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>&nbsp;journal said, and usage rates were still 23 times higher than before as of August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children and teenagers used mental health services at a rate 22% higher during the pandemic than they did before, and most visits and spending could be attributed to treatment for ADHD, anxiety disorders and adjustment disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study comes from the same researchers who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mollybohannon\/2023\/08\/25\/mental-health-spending-surged-over-50-in-us-since-start-of-pandemic-study-shows\/?sh=2844409d5d1a\">in August found<\/a>\u00a0that spending on mental health services among all Americans leaped more than 50% in the pandemic&#8217;s early years, largely for treatment of anxiety disorders, PTSD, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maryroeloffs\/2023\/10\/03\/kids-mental-health-spending-soared-26-during-pandemic-led-by-adhd-and-anxiety\/?sh=2ff2ef6c7121\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Anxiety, adjustment disorders and ADHD are largely to blame for a sharp 26% rise in mental healthcare costs for children in the two-and-a-half years following the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,\u00a0a new study\u00a0out Tuesday found\u2014the latest evidence of the pandemic\u2019s dire impact on both kids\u2019 and adults\u2019 mental health. Researchers with the RAND Corporation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}