Identifying Children and Adolescents at Elevated Mental Health Risk Before and During COVID-19.

Data from a large, national sample of pediatric visits suggested that global, internalizing, and attention concerns increased slightly overall from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic, with different patterns by age group and sex. Adolescent girls showed substantially increased global, internalizing, and attention problems. These increases support the need for further research and additional individual and system-level interventions.