Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers used the KCAT computerized adaptive mental health screening program to test children for ...

A new, computerized, mental health assessment tool may allow doctors to quickly identify children experiencing anxiety or depression before surgery, suggests new research presented at the ...

In Canada and the U.S., doctors are increasingly being encouraged to try to identify depression in children and adolescents - even if they do not have obvious indications of the disease. In order to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (September 14, 2022) – The scoring results of widely used depression-screening tools should be carefully adjusted to better detect the condition in teenagers with Type 1 diabetes ...

With the mental health crisis among U.S. children worsening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is now recommending that children age 8 and older be screened for anxiety. The new guidelines, ...

For the first time, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended screening for anxiety in children 8 and older. In its final recommendations, published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, ...

Last month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended primary care screening in children as young as 8 years old for anxiety and continued its prior recommendations to screen children 12 and ...

Slawa Rokicki ([email protected]), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. In New Jersey, universal screening for perinatal depression at the time of delivery has resulted in a 95 percent ...