National Trends in the Prevalence and Treatment of Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults

By R. Mojtabai, Mark Olfson, B. Han. Pediatrics, 2016

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Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2013–2019 (2022, background): “Specifically, disorders might vary by sex and age together, such that estimates of anxiety and depression are typically similar by sex in younger children but in adolescents are more common in girls than boys (17,152,153).”
Prevalence and Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Conduct Problems in US Children (2018, positive): “Trends across time in these data suggest that although the prevalence of some childhood mental disorders has remained relatively stable, that of several disorders (eg, depression among adolescents) has increased.(6) The prevalence of specific childhood mental disorders has implications for service p”
Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018, background): “Another study found that major depressive episodes among teens ages 12 to 17 increased beginning in 2011 (Mojtabai et al., 2016).”