Parents are missing work to help their kids? anxiety-and it?s costing millions
A new report suggests parents who miss work to help children suffering from anxiety cost the Ontario economy $421 million a year.
The report, released Wednesday by Children’s Mental Health Ontario, looked at data collected in 2017.
“That’s a huge loss to the economy,” said Kim Moran, the CEO of the association representing Ontario’s publicly-funded child and youth mental health centres. “That’s a huge impact on families that are already struggling in Ontario.”
The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Canadian Centre for Health Economics, springs from work done by CMHOÂ in 2017 that showed that one in four parents in the province reported missing work to care for a child with anxiety issues. The latest report takes that data and quantifies its cost to the province’s economy.Â
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Anxiety is sending twice as many kids to the emergency room as it was a decade ago
Adrian Rohit Dass, a University of Toronto researcher who co-authored the report, called the findings significant and said he hopes they prompt more study.
“The cost of care doesn’t end in the doctor’s office or the hospital,” he said. “Our study shows that there are signifi...
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