The Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections Following First-Episode Schizophrenia Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Cohort Study of 220 545 Subjects

• Published in: Schizophrenia bulletin Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 795 - 803
• Main Authors: Liang, Chih-Sung, Bai, Ya-Mei, Hsu, Ju-Wei, Huang, Kai-Lin, Ko, Nai-Ying, Chu, Hsuan-Te, Yeh, Ta-Chuan, Tsai, Shih-Jen, Chen, Tzeng-Ji, Chen, Mu-Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: US Oxford University Press 08.07.2020
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use; Causality; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Comorbidity; HIV; HIV Infections - epidemiology; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Regular; Risk; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - drug therapy; Schizophrenia - epidemiology; Schizophrenia - physiopathology; Severity of Illness Index; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology; STD; Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology; Survival Analysis; Syphilis; Syphilis - epidemiology; Young Adult; Young adults; human immunodeficiency virus; adolescent; syphilis; sexually transmitted infection; young adults; first-episode schizophrenia

Young people are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The risk of STIs in young people following first-episode schizophrenia is unknown. This study using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database enrolled 44 109 adolescents and young adults with first-epi...