Mental Health

Patients aged younger than 18 years who took oseltamivir were not at higher risk for suicide despite packaging indicating so, according to findings recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Although rates of opioid prescribing for adolescents are low, those with anxiety, mood and neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as those with other mental health conditions and treatments, are more likely to be prescribed any opioid.

Teenagers who are of a sexual minority are at increased risk of teen pregnancy, with those who identify as bisexual having a nearly fivefold increased risk of becoming pregnant, according to research published in Pediatrics.

Study findings demonstrated that school-based mental health services delivered by teachers and other school personnel helped reduce mental health issues in elementary-aged children.

Living in poverty or involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system were the social complexity risk factors that made children more likely to use EDs, according to findings published in Annals in Family Medicine.

BOSTON — More women than men presented findings at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections — a first for the meeting, according the organizers.

BOSTON — For the first time, at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, more women than men presented findings at the meeting, according to CROI Chair Judith S. Currier, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. The first authors of 537 of the 990 abstracts that were accepted this year were women, she said.

Among children and teenagers with major depressive disorder, those with comorbid dysthymia and higher levels of residual symptoms after acute treatment are at greater risk for relapse, according to study findings.

The prevalence of sexting among adolescents — sharing sexually explicit images, videos and messages using electronic devices — is a behavior that has increased since 1990 and increases as children age, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Updated clinical guidelines issued by the AAP provide treatment and ongoing management of adolescent depression within a primary care setting and include the use of antidepressants and the formation of a collaborative care model.