Oral health treatment habits of people with schizophrenia in France: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To identify the differences between persons with schizophrenia (PWS) and general population in France in terms of oral health treatment (tooth scaling, dental treatment and tooth extraction) and the factors associated with these differences. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study included PWS identified from a representative sample of 1/97th of the French population (general sample of beneficiaries). PWS were identified from 2014 data by an algorithm that included: F2 diagnostic codes in the register of long-term diseases in 2014 AND {(at least three deliveries of antipsychotics in 2014) OR (F20 diagnostic codes as a main or associated diagnosis in hospital discharge abstracts in 2012 or 2013 (hospital data for medicine, surgery and obstetrics)}. Follow-up dental care was explor

SUBMITTER: Denis F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7062238 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature