Mental Health Surveillance Among Children 2013-2019

The 2013-2019 data from these data systems show that mental disorders begin in early childhood and affect children with a range sociodemographic characteristics. During this period, the most prevalent disorders diagnosed among U.S. children and adolescents aged 3-17 years were attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anxiety, each affecting approximately one in 11 children. Among children and adolescents aged 12-17 years, one fifth had ever experienced a major depressive episode. Among high school students in 2019, 36.7% reported persistently feeling sad or hopeless in the past year, and 18.8% had seriously considered attempting suicide. Approximately seven in 100,000 persons aged 10-19 years died by suicide in 2018 and 2019. 

Bitsko, R. H., et al. (2022). Mental Health Surveillance Among Children - United States, 2013-2019. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 71(2): 1-42. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/su7102a1.htm