In a nod to the nation’s mental health crisis, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has called for routine anxiety screening for adults under age 65.
While the task force’s initial deliberations on anxiety screening predated the coronavirus pandemic, the new guidance comes at a critical time, said task force member Lori Pbert, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, Mass.“Covid has taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of Americans,” Pbert said.
also reiterated an earlier recommendation that adults of all ages undergo routine screening for depression. “Screening is great, but with a dire shortage in the workforce, it’s perplexing unless there are plans for increased funding of clinicians,” said Eugene Beresin, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and executive director ofGlobal prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25 percent during the first year of the pandemic, the World Health Organizationearlier this year.
Still, the panel urged providers to use their own clinical judgment to determine whether individual patients should be screened for suicide risk.of burnout, pandemic-driven stress and their own mental health challenges, adding yet another screening test to a long list of clinical tasks may feel burdensome.
But Mahmooda Qureshi, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, said that additional support for patients suffering from depression or anxiety will help.
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