While the results appear hopeful, researchers noted that the survey answers heavily varied based on a ... mental health. “This work is far from complete,” said Dr. Debra Houry, CDC’s chief ...

Results of the Center for Disease Control’s 2021 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey released Thursday provide a jarring look at the urgent state of teen physical and mental health. A third of female ...

New CDC data released early last month highlight improvements in mental health among some United States teens, including decreases in the percentage of students feeling persistently sad or hopeless.

Teen brains aged prematurely by as much as four years during covid lockdowns, researchers from the University of Washington ...

With families around the country preparing to go back to school, there is promising news about teen mental ... CDC’s division of adolescent and school health, said in a news release about the ...

A recent Centers for Disease Control youth survey found mental health remains ... Dr. Kathleen Ethier is the CDC'sDirector of the Division of Adolescent and School Health. She called the changes ...

Every two years, the CDC’s Youth Risk and Behavior Survey provides a glimpse into the ongoing teen mental health crisis, and the 2024 results may have left parents shaken. According to the ...

But for parents and others who care about kids, the most important discussion at the moment is about the existence of social media itself, and how it affects the mental health of children, teens ...

Teenagers spend nearly five hours a day, on average, on social media. And there's growing consensus that it's a big problem for their mental health.

In 2023, female and LGBTQ+ students reported more violence, signs of poor mental health and suicidal thoughts than other groups, K-12 Dive reported on findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey ...