New CDC data illuminate youth mental health threats during the COVID-19 pandemic : CDC’s first nationally representative survey of high school students during the pandemic can inform effective programs : Press release embargoed until: Thursday, March 31, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET

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• Personal Author:
  LoBue, Philip
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  New CDC analyses, published today, shine additional light on the mental health of U.S. high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a disproportionate level of threats that some students experienced.
  
  According to the new data, in 2021, more than a third (37%) of high school students reported they experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 44% reported they persistently felt sad or hopeless during the past year. The new analyses also describe some of the severe challenges youth encountered during the pandemic:
  
  • More than half (55%) reported they experienced emotional abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including swearing at, insulting, or putting down the student.
  
  • 11% experienced physical abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including hitting, beating, kicking, or physically hurting the student.
  
  • More than a quarter (29%) reported a parent or other adult in their home lost a job.
  
  These data, released as an MMWR Surveillance Supplement, come from the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES), CDC’s first nationally representative survey of public- and private-school high school students to assess the well-being of U.S. youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Funded through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, CDC fielded the survey during January – June 2021.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent COVID-19 Mental Disorders Pandemics
• Document Type:
  Press Release
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:091f1af12b8f64e08564fa620ae0f92f094ab2e86d524ec9f84cdb95cb7f8a14
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