Diagnostic Patterns and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Antipsychotic Prescribing Among Privately Insured Youth.

ABSTRACT: This study examined antipsychotic prescribing patterns with respect to mental health diagnoses and racial/ethnic differences among privately insured youth. We leveraged 2009-2021 data from Optum's de-identified Clinformatics^® Data Mart Database, derived from a database of administrative claims for members of large commercial and Medicare Advantage healthcare insurance plans. There were 46,372 new antipsychotic users between 6-17 years old. For each antipsychotic user, we identified a non-user with the same age, sex, and year of enrollment. We first examined sociodemographic and mental health characteristics of antipsychotic users. We then compared the odds of being an antipsychotic user across different racial/ethnic groups. Comparisons were repeated in subgroups of youth diagno

SUBMITTER: Sepe-Forrest L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12610407 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature