Tuesday, April 22, 2025 (Healthday Information)-the prevalence of melancholy between adolescents and adults from 12 years or extra throughout August 2021 to August 2023 was 13.1 %, a rise of 60 % between 2013 and 2014, in line with a April information report printed by the Nationwide Well being Statistics Middle.
Debra J. Brody, MPH, and Jeffrey P. Hughes, MPH, of the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, used information from August 2021 to August 2023 Nationwide Well being and Vitamin Surveys to guage the prevalence of melancholy in adolescents and adults of 12 years or older.
The researchers discovered that the prevalence of melancholy within the final two weeks was 13.1 % in adolescents and adults throughout August 2021 till August 2023, whereas the prevalence was eight.2 % in 2013-2014. Extra ladies who reported melancholy (16 versus 10.1 %). The prevalence decreased with the rise in age: 19.2 % of these aged 12 to 19 reported melancholy in comparison with eight.7 % of these 60 years or extra. The prevalence additionally decreased with the rise in household earnings, with a couple of in 5 adolescents and adults with household earnings under the poverty line that reviews melancholy.
“Amongst adolescents and adults with melancholy, 87.9 % reported no less than some problem with work, residence and social actions as a result of signs of melancholy, and 39.three % acquired recommendation or remedy from a psychological well being skilled within the final 12 months,” the authors write.
A better share of ladies who reported having acquired recommendation or remedy within the earlier 12 months (43.zero versus 33.2 %).
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