作者
Kaveh Same, Parnian Shobeiri, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Erfan Ghasemi, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Masoud Masinaei, Niloufar Salehi, Sahar Mohammadi Fateh, Seyed Farzad Maroufi, Elham Abdolhamidi, Mana Moghimi, Zeinab Abbasi-Kangevari, Negar Rezaei, Bagher Larijani
发表日期
2023/9/21
期刊
Schizophrenia Bulletin
页码范围
sbad120
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background and Hypothesis
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder usually presented in adulthood that affects roughly 0.3 percent of the population. The disease contributes to more than 13 million years lived with disability the global burden of disease. The current study aimed to provide new insights into the quality of care in Schizophrenia via the implementation of the newly introduced quality of care index (QCI) into the existing data.
Study Design
The data from the global burden of disease database was used for schizophrenia. Two secondary indices were calculated from the available indices and used in a principal component analysis to develop a proxy of QCI for each country. The QCI was then compared between different sociodemographic index (SDI) and ages. To assess the disparity in QCI between the sexes, the gender disparity ratio (GDR) was also calculated and …