Is There an Association Between Psychiatric Disorders and Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis? A Large-database Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) have reduced quality of life related to poor self-image, perhaps because of cosmetic concerns. However, there has not been a large-database epidemiologic study on the association between psychiatric disorders and scoliosis.

Questions/purposes

Using the Korean National Health Insurance database, we asked: (1) How common are psychiatric disorders among children with AIS? (2) After controlling for gender, age, insurance type, and residential district, are psychiatric disorders more common among children with AIS than among age-matched controls?

Methods

A retrospective analysis was conducted using sample datasets from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service from 2012 to 2016, which is a 10% randomly

SUBMITTER: Lee SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277277 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature