TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental Health Diagnoses among Transgender Patients in the Clinical Setting
T2 - An All-Payer Electronic Health Record Study
AU - Wanta, Jonathon W.
AU - Niforatos, Joshua D.
AU - Durbak, Emily
AU - Viguera, Adele
AU - Altinay, Murat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Jonathon W. Wanta et al. 2019; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2019.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database. Of 10,270 transgender patients identified, 58% (n=5940) had at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared with 13.6% (n=7,311,780) in the control patient population (p<0.0005). Transgender patients had a statistically significant increase in prevalence for all psychiatric diagnoses queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common diagnoses (31% and 12%, respectively). Utilizing an all-payer database, although not without limitations, enables assessment of mental health and substance use diagnoses in this otherwise small population.
AB - We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database. Of 10,270 transgender patients identified, 58% (n=5940) had at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared with 13.6% (n=7,311,780) in the control patient population (p<0.0005). Transgender patients had a statistically significant increase in prevalence for all psychiatric diagnoses queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common diagnoses (31% and 12%, respectively). Utilizing an all-payer database, although not without limitations, enables assessment of mental health and substance use diagnoses in this otherwise small population.
KW - electronic health records
KW - mental health
KW - psychiatric diagnosis
KW - transgender
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U2 - 10.1089/trgh.2019.0029
DO - 10.1089/trgh.2019.0029
M3 - Article
C2 - 31701012
AN - SCOPUS:85074632259
SN - 2380-193X
VL - 4
SP - 313
EP - 315
JO - Transgender Health
JF - Transgender Health
IS - 1
ER -