Mental Health

TORONTO — Preliminary results of a project to educate practitioners about naloxone use showed it improved their knowledge of the opioid antagonist and significantly increased naloxone distribution to patients at a Los Angeles clinic.

Participation in the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting is back to pre-COVID-19 levels of engagement, according to one of the event’s program chairs.

Stigma has a major impact on mental health and quality of life for pediatric patients with chronic skin diseases, according to a study.

Adolescent suicides increased by all methods — including firearms — from 1999 to 2020, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

According to data published last year, eating disorder claims rose 65% as a percentage of all medical claims in the United States between 2018 to 2022, with most claims in 2022 coming from patients aged 14 to 18 years.

A large proportion of adolescent patients treated with isotretinoin for acne had a history of a psychiatric diagnosis, but most were not diagnosed with additional psychiatric diagnoses or symptoms during treatment, according to a study.

Two pediatric addiction medical specialists and a mother who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning collaborated to write anticipatory guidance that may help pediatricians counsel patients and families on overdose prevention strategies.

Parents of very low-birth-weight premature infants are more likely to use mental health care in the first year after discharge from the NICU than families who do not have a premature infant, according to a study.

Suicide is now the second most common cause of death among college athletes in the United States, surpassed only by accidents, according to findings published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

A study identified late or varied bedtimes as risk factors for worse grades and behavioral issues among high school students, according to results published in Sleep.