The healthcare resource impact of maternal mental illness on children and adolescents: UK retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The general health of children of parents with mental illness is overlooked.

Aims

To quantify the difference in healthcare use of children exposed and unexposed to maternal mental illness (MMI).

Method

This was a retrospective cohort study of children aged 0-17 years, from 1 April 2007 to 31 July 2017, using a primary care register (Clinical Practice Research Datalink) linked to Hospital Episodes Statistics. MMI included non-affective/affective psychosis and mood, anxiety, addiction, eating and personality disorders. Healthcare use included prescriptions, primary care and secondary care contacts; inflation adjusted costs were applied. The rate and cost was calculated and compared for children exposed and unexposed to MMI using negative binomial regression m

SUBMITTER: Hope H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8387858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature