Societal Costs of Schizophrenia in Denmark: A Nationwide Matched Controlled Study of Patients and Spouses Before and After Initial Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information on welfare cost of patients with schizophrenia and spouses is limited.

Aim

The main aim of this study to investigate factual societal mean annual costs per individual during 5 years before and after the initial diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Method

A register-based cohort study of 12 227 patients with incident schizophrenia (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision F20-F20.99) with spouses and 48 907 matched controls in Denmark during 2002-2016.

Results

The total annual costs of health care and lost productivity were Euro 43 561 higher for patients with schizophrenia and health care costs and costs of lost productivity were increased during 5 years before the initial diagnosis. The total annual direct health care and indirect

SUBMITTER: Hastrup LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6942163 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature