Trilliant Health
Sanjula Jain, Ph.D.
October 30, 2022
Chief Researcher and Editor:
Joaquim Cardoso MSc.
health transformation . portal
October 31, 2022
In contrast, all other healthcare encounters — broadly inclusive of inpatient, outpatient, and virtual encounters — are down by 6% (Figure 2).
This spike in demand for behavioral health care underscores the ongoing behavioral health crisis in the country, which cannot be met with the current supply of behavioral health providers.1,2,3,4,5
- At the peak of the pandemic, over 40% of U.S. adults reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression.6
- From August 2020 to February 2021, the percentage of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders increased by 5.1 percentage points (from 36.4% to 41.5%).7
This spike in demand for behavioral health care underscores the ongoing behavioral health crisis in the country, which cannot be met with the current supply of behavioral health providers.
