{"id":901,"date":"2026-06-19T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?p=901"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:10","slug":"childrens-mental-health-visits-have-shot-up-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/2026\/06\/19\/childrens-mental-health-visits-have-shot-up-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Mental Health Visits Have Shot Up, Research Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2849123?guestAccessKey=f991e3cb-a0e1-490a-968a-e0679273ff4f&amp;utm_source=for_the_media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=051826\">Research<\/a> by CTMH Affiliate, <span>Megan Cole Brahim, PhD, MPH, and colleagues, is discussed in this New York Times article, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/science\/anxiety-mental-health-children-increases-study.html\">Children\u2019s Mental Health Visits Have Shot Up, Research Shows<\/a> &#8220;<span>Doctor\u2019s visits for children\u2019s anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Brahim drew attention to the notable finding regarding &#8220;the rapid increase in pediatric anxiety visits in particular, which just far outpaced the growth of all other mental health diagnoses.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Annie Flanagan for The New York Times, see linked article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by CTMH Affiliate, Megan Cole Brahim, PhD, MPH, and colleagues, is discussed in this New York Times article, Children\u2019s Mental Health Visits Have Shot Up, Research Shows &#8220;Doctor\u2019s visits for children\u2019s anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.&#8221;\u00a0 Dr. Brahim drew attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}