General and age-specific fertility rates in non-affective psychosis: population-based analysis of Scottish women.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Women diagnosed with non-affective psychosis have a lower general fertility rate (GFR) and age-specific fertility rate (ASFR) than women in the general population. Contemporary data on GFR in this group remain limited, despite substantive changes in prescribing and management. We calculated contemporary estimates of the GFR and ASFR for women diagnosed with non-affective psychosis compared with the general population of women without this diagnosis.

Methods

A population-based design combined routinely collected historical maternity and psychiatric data from two representative areas of Scotland. Women were included from the NHS Grampian or Greater Glasgow and Clyde areas and were aged 15-44 between 2005 and 2013 inclusive. The 'exposed' group had a diagnosis of non-af

SUBMITTER: MacBeth A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9845143 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature