A global mental health crisis is underway, especially among the very young: the incidence of depression and anxiety among adolescents has doubled compared to before the pandemic and a large meta-analysis just published in JAMA Pediatrics, which included 29 studies involving over 80,000 young people, has shown that today one out of 4 adolescents, in Italy and in the world, has clinical symptoms of depression and one in 5 signs of an anxiety disorder.
This widespread mental distress risks placing a serious risk on the future health of children.
This was stated by experts at the national congress of the Italian Society of NeuroPsicoPharmacology.
