{"id":7289,"date":"2023-02-24T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:29:23","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-with-serious-psychological-distress-in-the-past-30-days-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/02\/24\/7289\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years with Serious Psychological Distress in the Past 30 Days, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7208a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7208a5-F.gif?_=83906\" width=\"427\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 3.7% of adults aged \u226518 years had serious psychological distress in the past 30 days with percentages higher among women (4.6%) than among men (2.7%).<\/p>\n<p>The higher percentages among women were seen across all age groups: 5.6% versus 3.1% in adults aged 18\u201344 years, 4.5% versus 2.8% in those aged 45\u201364 years, and 2.8% versus 1.7% in those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of women who had serious psychological distress in the past 30 days decreased with age; the percentage of men who had serious psychological distress in the past 30 days was higher among those aged 18\u201344 and 45\u201364 years than among those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7208a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7208a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 3.7% of adults aged \u226518 years had serious psychological distress in the past 30 days with percentages higher among women (4.6%) than among men (2.7%). The higher percentages among women were seen across all age groups: 5.6% versus 3.1% in adults aged 18\u201344 years, 4.5% versus 2.8% in those aged 45\u201364 years, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63673,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}