Table 2:
Frequency of psychotropic medications administered during youth mental and behavioral health emergency department visits, by diagnosis (2006–2019).
| Mental and Behavioral Health Emergency Department Visits by Diagnosis | Psychotropic Medication Administered During Mental and Behavioral Health Emergency Department Visit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of Diagnosisa | Na | Estimateb | % of Visitsc (95% CI) | Na | Estimateb | % of Visits (95% CI ) |
| Anxiety | 318 | 1,616,322 | 13.7 (11.6–15.8) | 79 | 431,330 | 26.7 (19.7–33.6) |
| Depressive | 232 | 1,261,804 | 10.7 (8.6–12.8) | 30 | 125,640 | 10.0 (3.6–16.3) |
| Substance Use | 277 | 1,187,610 | 10.1 (8.3–11.8) | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Suicide or Self-Harm | 194 | 908,760 | 7.7 (6.1–9.4) | N/Rd | N/R | N/R |
| Disruptive/Impulse Control | 152 | 551,522 | 4.7 (3.1–6.3) | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Bipolar and Related | 139 | 510,776 | 4.3 (3.2–5.5) | 31 | 112,874 | 22.1 (12.0–32.2) |
| ASD/Neurodevelopmental | 89 | 437,136 | 3.7 (2.6–4.9) | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Trauma or Stressor-Related | 34 | 99,378 | 0.8 (0.4–1.3) | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Other Mental and Behavioral Health Diagnosese | 318 | 1,196,269 | 10.1 (8.2–12.1) | 64 | 150,791 | 12.6 (7.9–17.3) |
N indicates the number of observations in the sample.
Estimate indicates survey weighted national estimates.
A single visit can list up to 3 diagnoses. Individual visits may fall under multiple diagnosis categories. Therefore, the percentage of visits for each individual diagnosis do not add to 100%, nor the percentage of visits in which any psychotropic medication was administered.
N/R, not reportable because of unreliable survey-weighted estimates (<30 unweighted observations or relative SEs >30%).
The most common diagnosis in the “Other Mental and Behavioral Health Diagnoses” category was “Unspecified episodic mood disorder,” followed by other diagnoses under the CAMHD-CS categories of “mental health symptoms” and “miscellaneous” mental and behavioral health disorders.