Psychiatric morbidity and cervical cancer screening: a retrospective population-based case-cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer screening reduces disease-specific mortality. This study aimed to estimate whether bipolar disorder or schizophrenia is associated with disparities in cervical cancer screening rates.

Methods

This was a retrospective population-based matched case-cohort study of community-dwelling women aged 19-69 in Ontario using linked health administrative databases. We used odds ratios (ORs), hazards ratios and rate ratios (RRs) adjusted for demographic characteristics and relevant comorbidities to compare cervical cancer screening outcomes between women with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia to women without that history matched on key demographic characteristics, between 2003 and 2015.

Results

In total, 1 245 457 women were identified fo

SUBMITTER: Ouk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature