“A total of 13 percent to 20 percent of children living in the United States experience a mental disorder in a given year,” the report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.
The data, reported in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), also revealed that childhood mental illnesses are one of the most important public health issues in America “because of their prevalence, early onset, and impact on the child, family and community, with an estimated total annual cost of USD 247 billion.”
The data, collected between 1994 and 2011, indicated that suicide was the second leading cause of death among US children, aged 12 to 17, after accidents in the year 2010.
A separate study showed that 17 percent of American youth aged 10 to 21 years old, who are at risk of committing suicide, said there are guns in or around their home.
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