Our featured content for September is HHDW’s fact sheet on Mental Health in Hawaiʻi. It highlights the latest data available through HHDW related to the mental health of keiki and adults in Hawaiʻi, with additional resources for users to explore more.
This fact sheet showcases indicators including rates of depression across ages as well as health indicators relevant to mental health in Hawaiʻi.
Here are some key highlights for Hawaiʻi from the fact sheet:
- 14.4% of adults in Hawaiʻi in 2024 have ever been diagnosed with depression.
- This percentage is highest in Kauaʻi County where 17.3% of adults have ever been diagnosed with depression and lowest in Honolulu County with 13.7%.
- 25.5% of adults in Hawaiʻi in 2024 felt that life was slipping out of control for themselves.
- 39.6% of Hawaiʻi middle school students in 2023 had been bullied at school.
This fact sheet also displays additional resources for users interested in mental health, including the HHDW’s Health Topics Page on Mental Health and the Child and Family Mental Health tracker on Hawaiʻi Health Matters which features a selection of carefully chosen indicators on mental health in Hawaiʻi.
