A brief, computerized mental health screening for children going into surgery showed that more than half were experiencing preoperative anxiety, according to findings presented at Anesthesiology ...

Pediatricians should screen children as young as 8 for anxiety and kids 12 and older for depression during routine well checks, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Tuesday.

Early anxiety screening in schools helps identify at-risk children, providing timely support and intervention for better mental health outcomes. About Careers Internship MedBlog Contact us English ...

Anxiety screening may happen at your child’s next doctor visit. Here’s why. An influential task force has recommended that people ages 8 to 18 be screened for anxiety.

Anxiety screening for children should begin as early as age 8, task force advises. Flagging children who may be experiencing mental health problems can help get them early help.

Last month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended primary care screening in children as young as 8 years old for anxiety and continued its prior recommendations to screen children 12 ...

For the first time, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended screening for anxiety in children 8 and older.. In its final recommendations, published Tuesday in the medical journal ...

An influential panel of U.S. experts recommended for the first time on Tuesday that primary care doctors screen all children ages 8 to 18 for anxiety, even if there are no symptoms.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recently recommended depression screenings for kids 12 to 18 and anxiety screenings for kids 8 to 18. Dr. Dana Gadaire, a pediatric psychologist at ...

Mental health screening tools for kids are 30-year-old paper-and-pen questionnaires. They need to be modernized for kids of today.