National record-linkage study of hospital admissions for schizophrenia in childhood and adolescence in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of information on changes in hospital admission rates for childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), or on patient characteristics, to inform clinical research and health service provision.

Aims

To report age- and sex-specific incidence rates of hospital admissions and day patient care for schizophrenia (ICD-10 F20) and non-affective psychosis (ICD-10 F20-29), by year of occurrence and age, in childhood and adolescence.

Methods

Population-based study using person-linked data for England (available 2001-2016); time-periods in single years and 4-year groups.

Results

Hospitalised incidence for schizophrenia increased with increasing age, from 0.03 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.02-0.05) and 0.01 (0-0.01) per 100,000 in, respectively, males an

SUBMITTER: Seminog O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9663394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature