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Panel Says ALL Teens Should be Screened for “Depression”
David Gutierrez
Natural News
Thursday, July 9, 2009
(NaturalNews) The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a new recommendation, published in the journal Pediatrics, that all children between the ages of 12 and 18 be regularly screened for the symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD).
The new recommendations surpass those of most doctors’ groups — which advise screening high-risk youths only — and even those of the of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends only that doctors ask teens about depression, rather than giving them a full screening.
“Adolescent-onset MDD is associated with an increased risk of death by suicide, suicide attempts, … recurrence of major depression by young adulthood, … early pregnancy, decreased school performance, and impaired work, social, and family functioning during young adulthood,” the report authors wrote. “Mass screening in primary care could help clinicians identify missed cases and increase the proportion of depressed children and adolescents who initiate appropriate treatment. It could also help clinicians to identify cases earlier in the course of disease.”
The Preventive Services Task Force is a panel of independent experts given responsibility for setting national primary care treatment guidelines.
According to the panel, approximately 6 percent of U.S. teens, or two million, suffer from MDD, also known as clinical depression. Symptoms include sadness, anxiety, changes in eating or sleeping habits, hopelessness, irritability, isolation, moodiness, negativity, poor grades, risk taking, substance abuse and death wishes or suicidal thoughts.
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Because depression is so common in teens, the researchers said, the majority of cases go undiagnosed.
“You will miss a lot if you only screen high-risk groups,” said task force chair Ned Calonge of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
In order to develop the recommendation, the researchers reviewed high quality studies conducted since 2002 on the effectiveness of screening in diagnosing depression in children between the ages of 7 and 18, and also on the effectiveness of various treatments. They concluded that all children between the ages of 12 and 18 should receive yearly screening, preferably in a primary care setting such as an annual physical. Patients would merely need to fill out a simple questionnaire, which could even be completed in the waiting room, the researchers said.
The panel did not recommend screening younger children, due to absence of evidence that screening was effective in that age group.
“Limited available data suggest that primary care–feasible screening tools may accurately identify depressed adolescents and treatment can improve depression outcomes,” the task force wrote.
Another report, authored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and appearing in the same issue of Pediatrics, also calls for primary care physicians to get more involved in the treatment of mental illness, including depression. Recommendations include that pediatricians consult regularly with child psychiatrists, and try to have one working in their office if possible.
Report co-author Alan Axelson said that because parents have built up trust with pediatricians over time, these doctors may be in a better position to screen for and treat mental illness without invoking the social stigma of a visit to a therapist or psychiatrist. He noted that pediatricians are authorized to prescribe antidepressant drugs, though they may not perform psychotherapy.
Yet the Preventive Services Task Force report recommends that doctors screen for depression only in cases where psychotherapy is available as a treatment option. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs commonly used to treat depression have been linked to increased risks of suicidal thoughts in teenagers, Calonge noted, and the panel does not want to encourage their use in the absence of therapy.
“Treating depressed youth with [SSRIs] may be associated with a small increased risk of suicidality and should only be considered if judicious clinical monitoring is possible,” the report reads.
The task force’s study did not show any correlation between depression screening and improved physical or mental health outcomes.
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July 9th, 2009 at 4:40 am
the whole dam country is depressed what the hell. The dam doctor’s can’t even cure a headache these days and you want me to trust you yea right.
Silvanus Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 10:51 am
The anti-depressive-drugs have as sideffects higher suicide rate-”risk” in the first weeks…!!!!! This is even admitted and written in the package information leaflet of this satanic death drugs!!!
Our youth is desberately seeking after the way, the life and the truth !!!!!!
And that is Yeshua/Jesus!
They have been shown since tuddlerage that Sin is good and okay and that there is no god but Darwins ridicoulous theory of our life was a cold coincidence.
Wakien Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Your Yeshua propaganda is making me depressed.
Did you ever stop to think that teenagers get depressed because they see what a fucked-up mess the planet has become?
Silvanus Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Yes, thats also what is included when mankind is abandoning the creator!!!
July 9th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Get all the teens on mental illness drugs and no more gun rights how slick all young kids are depressed because they can’t have every thing they want I bet the question sheet will go along those lines to make it look like there is something wrong when really it is not.
hologram5 Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Agreed, children should NOT be put on medications like that so early in age. They WILL not put my kids on meds or vaccinate for the “Swine Flu”. This is propaganda and full of lies.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:02 am
F U
July 9th, 2009 at 5:03 am
First let’s screen all the DISTRICT OF CRIMINALITY…TO CHECK ON THEIR HONESTY AND TRUTHFULLNESS..
July 9th, 2009 at 5:03 am
It’s all psychological to confuse ‘and’ enslave you..
July 9th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Who screens the test and who screens the screeners who made the test that screens the kids.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:48 am
So, they finally wish to figure out how many kids have been actually screwed up by their immunizations?
July 9th, 2009 at 6:23 am
the schools get tax subsidies for every child diagnosed.
lotta kids(baby goats) lotta money
July 9th, 2009 at 6:24 am
oh yeah and then get them into the youth core high on drugs and give them guns.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:58 am
The government is afraid of depressed people because its a proven fact that depressed people see the truth and that is why they are depressed. Same with the smoking ban…it has been proven that the ONLY thing smokers have in common is higher levels of depression. http://www.conspiracyfriendfinder.com/
July 9th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Going through a bout of depression is part of being a teenager. I went through it and I’m sure everyone else went through it at one point in their lives too. This is just ignorant that they would even think of screening teens.
Paul (MN) Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I was about to say the same thing. I don’t know any teenager that hasn’t experienced depression as a result of their hyper active hormones.
But now that we are moving towards a Brave New World it’s time to take your SOMA. Everything is fine. Go back to sleep and be happy as we rape you over the coals.
My dad also made a good point – How can one not be depressed or stressed out when our country is being destroyed, economy as well as our civil liberties. I guess this is a good example of problem-reaction-solution.
July 9th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Yeah thats all good and well, but I’ve been depressed more than once and I lied to everyone who asked me questions about it. And another thing, I don’t think many kids would answer the questionnaire/answer it truthfully, considering the fact that most teens (that I know) either hate their parents and all authority, or in my case, don’t want anyone to be worried about them. I’m australian, so maybe American kids are different, but that kinda stuff would never work in my circle of associates.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:04 am
It’s normal to be depressed when your ruled by tyrants like bush and obama, and there is lots of police monitoring your every move, and you see that the big whigs go scott free.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:08 am
obama is trying to kill us and wipe out the population to indroduce the new superhuman. that’s not depressing? they want us dead, we can’t find a job, by the time the economy turns around it will be time for retirement, that’s not depressing?
July 9th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I think depression among children is a result of the break down of the community and low quality nutrition. Many kid spend long hours at home isolated watching tv, playing video games and eating processed psuedo-food. They’re sick, fat, and alone…i’m depressed for them.
American medicine treats the symptoms and never the sickness.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:28 am
All healthy humans become anxious and depressed when put under absolute authority, especially at the developmental stage where individuality is strongest.
Is this anxiety and depression unhealthy? or is it a natural, healthy reaction to the situation.
Why not hand out Anti-Depressants at funeral homes? These depressed people are obviously mentally unhealthy, right?
July 9th, 2009 at 10:48 am
And while you’re at it, screen all persons over the age of 30 for their involvement in the NWO.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
FUTURE DOCTOR: young man, your refusal to take the depression analysis survey proves to me you suffer from paranoia. I have no choice but to submit your name for placement on the no-fly list which eliminates your “privilages” under the bill of rights. Its for your own good. Now, roll up your sleeve for an injection. Nurse, have security place restraints on the patient.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I’m on more of these drugs than you can shake a stick and well… They don’t help… I’m still my normal self… But… Idk I personally think kids should be at least asked…
I mean sure it seems a bit BNW but, really depression shouldn’t be a normal part of life…. It’s 2009…
Modern society means you don’t need prehistoric mental conditions…
July 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
SCREEN THE FED!!
HERE’S HOW:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/de.....ent-425160
July 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I recommend start practicing yoga and pranajama to everyone
July 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
In Italy we have won and passed a law that prohibits any psychiatric test on minors.
They were trying to sell drugs to scholars who didn’t pass a stupid test.
If it was not “depression” was “hyper activity” or other INVENTED disease.
The association who succeeded in this was CCDU (.org)
The same obtaining the closure of all institutes for insane people (wich were not
hospitals but like lagers were there were no cures but only brutality).
BE AWARE OF PSYCHIATRISTS!
Any “soul” problem can be handled with “soul” solutions.
No medication can heal our “soul”.
Thank you PrisonPlanet.com!
July 9th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Its a good idea for the pharmaceutical companies, get the customers while there young there’s nothing like a lifetime pill popper dependent on antidepressants the rest of his life to bring up sales. Pretty soon they will force ugly people to get plastic surgery on the pretext that there scaring babies.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:51 am
FIRST GIVE EVERY DC CRITTER A POLYGRAPH—TO SEE HOW DAMN DISHONEST THEY ARE…
July 10th, 2009 at 6:52 am
THANK YOU ITALIAN….PREGO….
July 10th, 2009 at 6:54 am
YEN–IT’S NOT THE SCHOOLS OR GUVMENTS BUSINESS TO ASK MY KIDS ANYTHING PERSONAL–I AM THEIR PARENT GD….
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