The 2022 Pediatric Suicidal Ideation Data Brief looks at the rates of suicidal-ideation (SI) related emergency department (ED) visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine what mental health impacts the crisis had on youth age 10-17 in Douglas County. We hopes that this Data Brief will be used as a tool to influence and guide local decisions related to pediatric mental health as our community continues to move towards recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our study found that public health emergency like COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already high proportion of suicidal ideation-related ED visit for children and adolescents in Douglas County. Youth aged 10-17 years, especially middle school aged teens, are more vulnerable and adversely affected by COVID.” — Aihua Zhu, LDCPH Senior Analyst and author
To read the Pediatric Suicidal Ideation Data Brief click HERE.
To read the 2019 Suicide data brief click HERE.