Diagnosed Incidence of Non-Affective Psychotic Disorders Amongst Adolescents in British Columbia and Sociodemographic Risk Factors: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the diagnosed incidence of non-affective psychotic disorder between the ages of 13 and 19 years in South-Western British Columbia (BC) and to examine variation in risk by sex, family and neighbourhood income, family migration background, parent mental health contact and birth year.

Methods

Linked individual-level administrative data were used to construct a cohort of individuals born in 1990-1998 and residing in South-Western BC (n = 193,400). Cases were identified by either one hospitalization or two outpatient physician visits within 2 years with a primary diagnosis of a non-affective psychotic disorder (ICD-10: F20-29, ICD-9: 295, 297, 298). We estimated cumulative incidence, annual cumulative incidence and incidence rate between the ages of

SUBMITTER: Magee C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014684 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature