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Increasing numbers of American children are not coping with the pressures of life.  ~  Mental health issues are sending more and more kids and teens to hospital emergency rooms, and that increase has been most dramatic among minorities, a new report shows.Between 2012 and 2016, overall admissions shot up 50% in the United States, the researchers said.Racial and ethnic disparities"Prior to our study, we knew that an increasing number of children with mental health concerns were coming to the nation's paediatric emergency departments," said study author Dr Anna Abrams. She is a resident physician with the Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C."What this new research demonstrates is that not only are these visits increasing at a staggering rate, but that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the trends of who visits paediatric emergency departments for mental health issues," Abrams said.Why this is so remains unclear, she noted."Our study really was an effort to characterise the frequency of these emergency department visits," Abrams explained. "It was not designed to investigate the potential reasons that triggered these visits. We do plan to investigate this question in future work."Abrams and her colleagues plan to present their findings at an American Academy of Pediatrics meeting, in Orlando, Florida. The research should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.The study team said that more than 17 million American children struggle with some form of psychiatric illness. In recent years, that has meant that somewhere between 2 to 5% of all paediatric visits to the emergency department have been related to mental illness concerns.Dramatic rise in visitsTo drill down on the trends, the investigators sifted through data that had been collected by the Pediatric Health Information System.The team focused on the... ادامه نوشته