Health and Dental Insurance and Health Care Utilization Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With CKD: Findings From the CKiD Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

To understand the association between health and dental insurance status and health and dental care utilization, and their relationship with disease severity in a population with childhood-onset chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Study design

Observational cohort study.

Settings & participants

Nine hundred fifty-three participants contributing 4,369 person-visits (unit of analysis) in the United States enrolled in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Study from 2005 to 2019.

Exposures

Health insurance (private vs public vs none) and dental insurance (presence vs absence) self-reported at annual visits.

Outcomes

Self-reported suboptimal health care utilization in the past year, defined separately as not visiting a private physici

SUBMITTER: Molino AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9062328 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature