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@JAMAPediatrics study suggests that during first year of pandemic “1 in 4 youth globally are experiencing clinically elevated depression symptoms, while 1 in 5 youth are experiencing clinically elevated anxiety symptoms.”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 10, 2021 Source:Anxiety, depression in kids double during pandemic; teens, girls most at risk: study Reference:Global Prevalence of Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents During COVID-19
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Wait times for adolescent and child psychiatry consults can exceed one year
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 6, 2015 Source: Ontario youth wait a year or more for mental health care: report Reference: Report Card on Child and Youth Mental Health
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School-based early detection for mental illness does work
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 8, 2014 Source: Mental illness best detected early in schools, doctors say Reference: Mental Health Interventions in Schools
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Thoughts on the sex education exhibit at the Science Centre
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 16, 2012 [display_podcast]
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Helping vegetarian teens thrive
Increasing numbers of adolescents, especially girls, are adopting vegetarian diets. Their reasons for choosing a vegetarian diet vary from animal welfare, health benefits and food safety to environmental and sociopolitical concerns. Surveys suggest that approximately 8% of adolescents in the United Kingdom and 6% of older elementary and high-school students in the midwestern United States…
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What teens want to know
School children tend to set the agenda when it comes to what health info they want Despite numerous health advisory and information campaigns, inroads into curbing or modifying deleterious adolescent behaviours remain wanting. There are many reasons, including competition from television and movies, advertising, peer pressure, academic responsibilities, development of independent attitudes and rebelliousness, and…
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Discourage smoking by appealing to teens' independent spirit
Our governments spend millions of dollars a year to combat the scourge of teen smoking. Many “hip” public health campaigns have been tried with limited success.
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Up in smoke
Throw away those old truisms about cigarettes. Here are some new ways to talk to teens about smoking.
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Trust, teens and the family doc
Eight years ago, two Ottawa doctors went back to high school to start the first in-school medical centre of its kind in Canada Adolescents are an under-serviced population — and there are several factors that contribute to this phenomenon.