Elevated psychiatric and substance use disorders in people with intellectual disabilities in a Swedish National Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adults with intellectual disability (ID) experience marked mental health inequities, yet population-wide estimates that capture both primary- and specialist-care diagnoses remain scarce.

Methods

Using nationwide Swedish registries, including primary care, specialist, inpatient, prescription drug, criminal, and suspicion registers, we included all individuals born in Sweden between 1958 and 1997 (N = 3,970,600), including 38,818 individuals with ID diagnoses (0.98%; 49.1% mild, 13.3% moderate, and 9.6% severe/profound). Hazard ratios (HR) were calculated using Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the relative risk of lifetime diagnoses of major depression, anxiety disorders (ANX), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder (BD), attention-defi

SUBMITTER: Brown RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12848947 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature