{"id":4836,"date":"2020-03-13T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:30:34","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-and-adolescents-aged-4-17-years-with-serious-emotional-or-behavioral-difficulties-by-sex-and-urbanization-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/03\/13\/4836\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 4\u201317 Years with Serious Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties by Sex and Urbanization Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6910a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6910a6-F.gif\" width=\"447\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2016\u20132018, the percentage of children and adolescents aged 4\u201317 years with serious emotional or behavioral difficulties was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (6.7%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (5.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Among boys, those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.5%) were more likely to have serious emotional or behavioral difficulties than those living in metropolitan areas (6.6%), but the difference among girls was smaller and not significant.<\/p>\n<p>Among children and adolescents living in either metropolitan or nonmetropolitan areas, boys were more likely than girls to have serious emotional or behavioral difficulties.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2016\u20132018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6910a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6910a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2016\u20132018, the percentage of children and adolescents aged 4\u201317 years with serious emotional or behavioral difficulties was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (6.7%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (5.3%). Among boys, those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.5%) were more likely to have serious emotional or behavioral difficulties than those living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,14310,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"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=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}