Research Conducted at University of Missouri Has Provided New Information about Psychiatry (Disparities in Health Coverage Across Gender and Marital Status among Discharged Psychiatric Patients)

2019 MAY 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in Psychiatry. According to news reporting from Columbia, United States, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “The goal of this study was to examine the demographics sex and marital status of inpatients with schizophrenia and bipolar and compare differences in patients’ chances of possessing adequate health coverage to cover hospital expenses. Data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey was extracted and analyzed.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Missouri, “For hospital discharges of patients age 18 and older 702,626 hospital discharges were included in the study representing a weighted population of 77,082,738 hospital discharges. Prediction model was applied to test the ability of the independent variables sex and marital status to predict differences in health coverage in multinomial logistic regression (MLR) test. Results indicate that sex and marital status were significant predictors of health coverage type that patient owned. Male, unmarried and with unknown marital status patients were more likely to be either uninsured or publicly insured.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Public health policy legislation efforts need to address public-health-insurance provisions that limit the coverage of treatment for psychiatric patients.”

For more information on this research see: Disparities in Health Coverage Across Gender and Marital Status among Discharged Psychiatric Patients. Psychiatric Quarterly, 2019;():. (Springer - www.springer.com; Psychiatric Quarterly - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0033-2720/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A. Omary, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-019-09637-0. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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