Fewer than half of all adolescents with major depressive episode (MDE) received mental health care in the US in 2022, with the odds of specialist treatment being even lower among marginalized groups, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health by Su Chen Tan and colleagues at University of Tennessee, USA.

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A new study published in PLOS One looked at the impact of loneliness on depression, mental health, and physical well-being. “Our study investigates how loneliness, measured as the subjective feeling of social disconnection, predicts poor mental and physical health outcomes,” study author Oluwasegun Akinyemi told us. “Specifically, we examined whether individuals who feel lonely more often are more likely to experience clinical depression, more frequent days of poor mental health, and more frequent days of poor physical health."

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