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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020 Nov;21(11):941–948. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002559

Figure 1. New mental health care use by mothers and fathers in the 6 months after their child’s discharge from the PICU.

Figure 1.

In the 6 months post-PICU hospitalization, new prescriptions for antidepressants were given to 3.4% of parents and new prescriptions for anxiolytics were given to 3.9% of parents. Overall, mothers were twice as likely to have a new claim for these medications than fathers. New mental health conditions were diagnosed in 9.5% of parents. Depression and anxiety were the most common new diagnoses. Very few parents had new claims for outpatient mental health visits in the 6 months after their child’s discharge from the PICU.