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found that teenage girls are taking antidepressants at a much higher rate than teenage boys, whose usage rate has actually declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"In males, it’s theoretically possible that this reflects improved mental health, but I’m struggling with that explanation," University of Michigan Medical School pediatrician and lead author Kao-Ping Chua. "Given that everybody’s mental health got worse, I would have expected that boys’ antidepressant dispensing would have at least remained stable, not decrease."
"There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health," he told the news outlet. "They didn’t go to their doctors. They skipped physicals.", which captures information on medication prescriptions to patients. They specifically looked at Americans between the ages of 12 to 25 between the years 2016 and 2022.
The researchers determined that the overall monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased by 66.3 percent from January 2016 to December 2022. Unsurprisingly, the rate increased particularly rapidly starting during the pandemic shutdown of March 2020.
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