Improving our understanding of the social determinants of mental health: a data linkage study of mental health records and the 2011 UK census.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To address the lack of individual-level socioeconomic information in electronic healthcare records, we linked the 2011 census of England and Wales to patient records from a large mental healthcare provider. This paper describes the linkage process and methods for mitigating bias due to non-matching.

Setting

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), a mental healthcare provider in Southeast London.

Design

Clinical records from SLaM were supplied to the Office of National Statistics for linkage to the census through a deterministic matching algorithm. We examined clinical (International Classification of Disease-10 diagnosis, history of hospitalisation, frequency of service contact) and socio-demographic (age, gender, ethnicity, deprivation) info

SUBMITTER: Cybulski L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826590 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature