Behavioral Health Diagnoses in Youth with Gender Dysphoria Compared with Controls: A PEDSnet Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the odds of a psychiatric or neurodevelopmental diagnosis among youth with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria compared with matched controls in a large electronic health record dataset from 6 pediatric health systems, PEDSnet. We hypothesized that youth with gender dysphoria would have higher odds of having psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses than controls.

Study design

All youth with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria (n = 4173 age at last visit 16.2 ± 3.4) and at least 1 outpatient encounter were extracted from the PEDSnet database and propensity-score matched on 8 variables to controls without gender dysphoria (n = 16 648, age at last visit 16.2 ± 4.8) using multivariable logistic regression. The odds of having psychiatric and neurodevelopmental dia

SUBMITTER: Nunes-Moreno M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8828680 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature