Cancer Screening Among Adults With and Without Serious Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) die 10-20 years earlier than the general population; cancer is the second leading cause of death. Differences in cancer screening between SMI and the general population are not well understood.

Objectives

To describe receipt of cancer screening among individuals with versus without SMI and to explore clinicians' perceptions around cancer screening for people with SMI.

Methods

Mixed-methods study using 2010-2017 MarketScan commercial insurance administrative claims data and semi-structured clinician interviews. In the quantitative analyses, we used multivariate logistic regression analyses to calculate the likelihood of receiving cervical, breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer screening among people with versus with

SUBMITTER: Murphy KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7952680 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature