{"id":2213,"date":"2014-05-05T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2014-05-05T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:29:15","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-aged-6-17-years-prescribed-medication-during-the-preceding-6-months-for-emotional-or-behavioral-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/05\/05\/2213\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children Aged 6\u201317 Years Prescribed Medication During the Preceding 6 Months for Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6317a9.htm?s_cid=mm6317a9_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6317qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2011\u20132012, among children aged 6\u201317 years, 7.5% overall had been prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral difficulties during the preceding 6 months. By U.S. Census region, the percentages were 9.3% in the South, 8.0% in the Midwest, 6.3% in the Northeast, and 5.0% in the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6317a9.htm?s_cid=mm6317a9_e\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6317a9.htm?s_cid=mm6317a9_e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132012, among children aged 6\u201317 years, 7.5% overall had been prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral difficulties during the preceding 6 months. By U.S. Census region, the percentages were 9.3% in the South, 8.0% in the Midwest, 6.3% in the Northeast, and 5.0% in the West. http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6317a9.htm?s_cid=mm6317a9_e<\/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\/2213"}],"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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}