Health Service Use among Individuals with Depression and Psychological Distress: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Ontario, Canada: Utilisation des services de sante par les personnes souffrant de depression et de detresse psychologique : une etude de cohorte dans la population de l'Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Relatively little is known about how health-care utilization differs among individuals with psychological distress compared to those with major depressive disorder (MDD).

Methods

Ontario participants of the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.2 (2002) were linked to health administrative data to follow their health-care utilization patterns for up to 15 years. Based on their survey responses, we classified individuals hierarchically into Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria MDD, psychological distress (Kessler-6: 8 to 24), or an unexposed group with neither condition. We compared the rates of outpatient and acute care mental and nonmental health-related visits across the 3 groups over time using Poisson regres

SUBMITTER: Chiu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature