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: Received: 17 April 2024 / Approved: 18 April 2024 / Online: 19 April 2024 (09:56:42 CEST)
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Penick, E.C.; Hossain, W.A.; Madarasz, W.; Manzardo, A.M.; Knop, J.; Mortensen, E.L.; Gabrielli, W.F. The Influence of Gender on the Psychiatric Comorbidity of Treated Danish Patients With and Without Alcoholism. Preprints2024, 2024041265. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1265.v1
Penick, E.C.; Hossain, W.A.; Madarasz, W.; Manzardo, A.M.; Knop, J.; Mortensen, E.L.; Gabrielli, W.F. The Influence of Gender on the Psychiatric Comorbidity of Treated Danish Patients With and Without Alcoholism. Preprints 2024, 2024041265. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1265.v1
Penick, E.C.; Hossain, W.A.; Madarasz, W.; Manzardo, A.M.; Knop, J.; Mortensen, E.L.; Gabrielli, W.F. The Influence of Gender on the Psychiatric Comorbidity of Treated Danish Patients With and Without Alcoholism. Preprints2024, 2024041265. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1265.v1
APA Style
Penick, E.C., Hossain, W.A., Madarasz, W., Manzardo, A.M., Knop, J., Mortensen, E.L., & Gabrielli, W.F. (2024). The Influence of Gender on the Psychiatric Comorbidity of Treated Danish Patients With and Without Alcoholism. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1265.v1
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Penick, E.C., Erik L Mortensen and William F Gabrielli. 2024 "The Influence of Gender on the Psychiatric Comorbidity of Treated Danish Patients With and Without Alcoholism" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1265.v1
Abstract
Objective: The influence of gender on the number and pattern of co-morbid psychiatric illness was archivally compared between patients with and without an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) among psychiatrically treated individuals drawn from a large Danish birth cohort.
Method: By age 45, fifteen percent of the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort (N=8,109) had been treated in a Danish psychiatric facility. Of those 1,247 patients, 368 were assigned an AUD diagnosis (29.5%). All psychiatric diagnoses assigned to these patients, over all admissions, were classified into one of 14 broad ICD-10 F categories for comparative purposes.
Results: More of the patients with an AUD diagnosis were male. Patients with an AUD diagnosis were significantly more likely to receive two or more non-AUD psychiatric diagnoses than patients without an AUD diagnosis. The number of psychiatric diagnoses was greater for female than male AUD patients, a difference not found among male and female patients without an AUD diagnosis. For patients with no AUD diagnosis, the influence of gender on the pattern of psychiatric disorders was similar to that commonly reported. In contrast, the influence of gender on the number and pattern of psychiatric disorders for patients with an AUD diagnosis indicated fewer gender differences. Several diagnostic categories that discriminated male from female patients without an AUD-related diagnosis, no longer discriminated male from female patients with an AUD-related diagnosis.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that gender differences associated with psychiatric comorbidity that have been reported in large heterogenous study, should not be generalized to specific diagnostic groups without further study.
Keywords
Alcohol use disorder; Gender; Psychiatric comorbidity
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Health Policy and Services
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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