Pediatric and adolescent mood disorders: An analysis of factors that influence inpatient presentation in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health is an essential aspect of health and wellbeing that the general population often overlooks. This study aims to utilize a nationwide sample [Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Kid's Inpatient Database (KID)] to analyze the factors affecting inpatient mood disorder admissions in the United States.

Methods

A total of 295,472 cases ages 1-20 were identified to meet the criteria (Appendix A) for the selected mood disorders from the HCUP KID 2016 dataset. We conducted descriptive statistics of the individual diagnosis. We evaluated the relationships with variables such as age (grouped), sex, region, disposition, household income, race, rural-urban demographics, and mean charges. We also conducted association tests for the variables of interest.

SUBMITTER: Sulley S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9152573 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature