Abstract
Suicide is the third leading cause of death in US adolescents, and rates of psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents have risen by almost a quarter over the last decade. Literature suggests that this rise is driven by an increase in parental awareness of suicide indicators on social media, growing public awareness of stressors on teenagers, and risks imposed by new forms of harassment (eg, cyberbullying). We reviewed the rates of hospitalizations and the clinical environment from which these patients were hospitalized to obtain initial insights into what may be influencing trends in hospitalizations among this population. These data were drawn from a large health system in Northern California with a catchment area that includes 48,208 individuals under age 18 years to characterize rates of psychiatric hospitalizations over a 5-year period.
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