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10 Οκτ 2024 · Adolescents with mental health conditions are particularly vulnerable to social exclusion, discrimination, stigma (affecting readiness to seek help), educational difficulties, risk-taking behaviours, physical ill-health and human rights violations.
Mental health conditions constitute a major burden of disease for adolescents globally. In 2019, it was estimated that one in seven adolescents experience mental disorders [i]. This amounts to an estimated 166 million adolescents (89 million boys and 77 million girls) boys and girls globally.
The most diagnosed mental health disorders among children ages 3-17 years in 2016-2019 were attention deficit disorder (9.8%, approximately 6 million), anxiety (9.4%, approximately 5.8 million), behavior problems (8.9%, approximately 5.5 million), and depression (4.4%, approximately 2.7 million).
2 Οκτ 2024 · Depression and anxiety are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents, and suicide is among the leading causes of death in people aged 15–19 years. Half of all mental health disorders in adulthood start by age 14, but most cases are undetected and untreated.
In 2019, 1 in every 8 people, or 970 million people around the world were living with a mental disorder, with anxiety and depressive disorders the most common (1). In 2020, the number of people living with anxiety and depressive disorders rose significantly because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prioritisation of adolescent mental health promotion and suicide prevention has resulted in 51% decrease of self-injury mortality in the age group 15-17 at the national level (number of suicide cases decreased from 212 in 2013 to 104 in 2018 in the age group 15-17).
PMCID: PMC9169480 PMID: 35293521. Around the world, an estimated 166 million boys and girls aged 10 to 19 years met the criteria for a mental health disorder in 2019. That same year, suicide was among the top five causes of death among 15- to 19-year-olds in 8 of the 9 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) regions, including Latin America and ...
