{"id":2202,"date":"2014-04-29T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2014-04-29T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:43:35","slug":"use-of-medication-prescribed-for-emotional-or-behavioral-difficulties-among-children-aged-6-17-years-in-the-united-states-2011-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/04\/29\/2202\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Medication Prescribed for Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties Among Children Aged 6\u201317 Years in the United States, 2011\u20132012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db148.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db148_fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mental health problems are common chronic conditions in children.\u00a0 Medication is often prescribed to treat the symptoms of these conditions. Few population-based studies have examined the use of prescription medication to treat mental health problems among younger as well as older school-aged children.<\/p>\n<p>A new NCHS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db148.pdf\">report<\/a> describes the sociodemographic characteristics of children aged 6\u201317 years prescribed medication or taking medication during the past 6 months for emotional or behavioral difficulties, and describes parental reports of the perceived benefit of this medication.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven and one-half percent of children aged 6\u201317 years used prescribed medication during the past 6 months for emotional or behavioral difficulties.<\/li>\n<li>A higher percentage of children insured by Medicaid or the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program used prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral difficulties than children with private health insurance or no health insurance.<\/li>\n<li>A higher percentage of children in families having income below 100% of the poverty level used prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral difficulties than children in families at 100% to less than 200% of the poverty level.<\/li>\n<li>More than one-half of children who used prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral difficulties had a parent report that this medication helped the child &#8220;a lot.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health problems are common chronic conditions in children.\u00a0 Medication is often prescribed to treat the symptoms of these conditions. Few population-based studies have examined the use of prescription medication to treat mental health problems among younger as well as older school-aged children. A new NCHS\u00a0report describes the sociodemographic characteristics of children aged 6\u201317 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}