Ask Suicide-Screening Questions instrument also performs well for universal screening in emergency departments
Almost 60 percent of girls, almost 70 percent of LBGQ+ students experienced feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness in past year
Additionally, universal screening increases initiation of mental health services
More than threefold risk for welfare receipt seen for childhood abuse combined with intimate partner violence in young adulthood
Authors say this may reflect peer influence on substance use, as decreases were not seen for older adults
Proportion of youth aged 19 years and younger dispensed buprenorphine decreased 45 percent from 2015 to 2020
Adolescents with greater number of psychological assets, such as self-esteem and feeling loved, more likely to have cardiometabolic health maintenance later in life
Improvement in self-reported antiretroviral therapy adherence and decrease in viral load seen with intervention
Larger benefit seen among those aged 13 years or older or with a mental illness, depression diagnosis
Worse outcomes seen for mental health, pain, unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, and psychosocial health factors