A greater proportion of U.S. high schoolers reported feeling persistently hopeless or contemplating suicide during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the CDC.
A greater proportion of U.S. high schoolers reported feeling persistently hopeless or contemplating suicide during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated an already growing mental health crisis among youth, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... [+]The proportion of high schoolers experiencing sadness or hopelessness that interfered with usual activities spiked from 36.7% in 2019, prior to the pandemic, to 44.
of self-harm among girls and young women, with overall rates of serious contemplation of suicide climbing from 18.8% in 2019 to 19.9% in 2021 and rates of attempted suicide increasing slightly from 8.9% in 2019 to 9% in 2021., when 26.1% of students reported persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness, 13.8% reported seriously considering suicide and 6.3% reported attempting suicide.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 66.6% of students have found it harder to complete schoolwork, an issue that was strongly associated with emotional abuse by a parent, with a parent losing their job and with food insecurity—and which disproportionately affected lesbian, gay and bisexual students, 74.4% of whom reported schoolwork difficulty, and American Indian or Alaska Native students, 72.4% of whom reported schoolwork difficulty.
The study included data from 7,705 online questionnaires filled out by students in grades 9 to 12 at 128 U.S. public and private schools from January to June 2021.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Covid-19 pandemic had a “devastating” effect on mental health problems that were already widespread by 2019, exacerbated by popular media that undermine youth’s feelings of self-worth by telling them they are not attractive, popular or wealthy enough, said Surgeon General Dr.
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