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Youth Mental Health Improved When Schools Reopened, Study Finds

✇NYT | Top Stories
Ellen Barry
With the end of school shutdowns, children’s mental health appointments fell sharply, though other factors may have contributed.

© Anna Watts for The New York Times

Nine months after schools reopened, the probability that a child would be treated for a mental health condition was reduced by 43 percent, from 2.8 percent during the shutdown period, a study published Monday found.
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