Lower Completion of Depression Screening and Higher Positivity Among Autistic Adolescents Across a Large Pediatric Primary Care Network.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine rates of depression screening and positivity among autistic adolescents where electronic depression screening is administered universally; to compare rates between autistic and nonautistic youth; and to explore sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with screening completion and results.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing 12-17-year-old autistic and nonautistic adolescents presenting for well-child care in a large pediatric primary care network between November 2017 and January 2019 (N = 60,181). Sociodemographic and clinical data, including PHQ-9-M completion status and results, were extracted digitally from the electronic health record and compared between autistic and nonautistic youth. Logistic regression explored t

SUBMITTER: Hamdan SZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755081 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature