Youth Prevalence of Mental Illness Youth With At Least One Major Depressive Episode (MDE) in the Past Year 15.08% of youth (age 12-17) report suffering from at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year. Childhood depression is more likely to persist into adulthood if gone untreated, but only half of children with pediatric major depression are diagnosed before adulthood.1 The number of youths experiencing MDE increased by 306,000 (1.24 percent) from last The state prevalence of youth with
year’s dataset.
MDE ranges from: 18.62% (OR) Ranked 39-51
11.36% (DC) Ranked 1-13
Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1
State District of Columbia Mississippi New Jersey Pennsylvania Florida New York Tennessee Georgia South Carolina Louisiana Hawaii Connecticut Alabama Texas Rhode Island Ohio Maryland Colorado North Dakota Montana Kentucky Illinois California South Dakota Delaware Nebraska
%
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11.36 12.64 12.71 12.88 13.25 13.29 13.72 13.75 13.82 14.14 14.16 14.41 14.51 14.60 14.64 14.73 14.93 15.02 15.07 15.11 15.15 15.15 15.22 15.41 15.48 15.50
4,000 31,000 86,000 117,000 191,000 179,000 70,000 119,000 52,000 51,000 13,000 39,000 54,000 363,000 11,000 131,000 67,000 65,000 8,000 12,000 51,000 149,000 459,000 11,000 11,000 24,000
Rank 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
State
%
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Missouri Virginia Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Minnesota Wisconsin Arkansas Vermont Kansas Michigan Indiana West Virginia North Carolina Iowa Oklahoma Arizona Idaho Wyoming Utah Nevada Alaska Washington New Mexico Oregon
15.54 15.57 15.60 15.61 15.85 15.94 15.99 16.27 16.36 16.53 16.55 16.61 16.62 16.68 16.69 17.01 17.41 17.44 17.59 17.77 17.93 17.93 18.22 18.60 18.62
National
15.08
72,000 98,000 14,000 75,000 15,000 70,000 71,000 39,000 7,000 39,000 125,000 89,000 21,000 132,000 41,000 54,000 98,000 27,000 8,000 56,000 42,000 10,000 99,000 31,000 55,000 3,755,000
Mullen, S. (2018). Major depressive disorder in children and adolescents. The Mental Health Clinician, 8(6):275-283. Doi:
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