Reuters
More high school girls suffered from poor mental health than boys- U.S. data
About 57% of the female students reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness”, up from 36% in 2011, according to the data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on Monday. There was improvement for adolescents in some areas, such as risky sexual behavior, substance abuse and bullying, but mental health and suicidal thoughts as well as experiences of violence worsened, the data showed. One in five teenage girls experienced sexual violence over the past year, up 20% since 2017, when the CDC started monitoring this measure.