Park Hyemin, Song Inmyung, Shin Ju-Young
1 School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2017 Nov;29(8):692-697. doi: 10.1177/1010539517745807.
Little is known about the prevalence of depression diagnosis in Korea. We aimed to compare the prevalence of depression diagnosis between Medical Aid and health insurance beneficiaries in an outpatient setting in Korea. The data of patients who visited a medical institution for outpatient care in 2015 were extracted from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service National Patient Sample claims database, and those diagnosed with major depressive disorder, single episode (F32) or recurrent (F33), were identified. The adjusted odds ratio (aOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were estimated through logistic regression analyses. Among the outpatients, 2.51% were diagnosed with depression at least once. Medical Aid beneficiaries (aOR = 1.97; 95% CI = 1.96-1.98) were more likely to be diagnosed with depression than health insurance beneficiaries.
关于韩国抑郁症诊断的患病率，人们知之甚少。我们旨在比较韩国门诊环境中医疗救助受益人和健康保险受益人的抑郁症诊断患病率。2015年到医疗机构接受门诊治疗的患者数据，是从健康保险审查和评估服务国家患者样本索赔数据库中提取的，被诊断为单次发作（F32）或复发性（F33）重度抑郁症的患者被识别出来。通过逻辑回归分析估计调整后的优势比（aOR）和95%置信区间（CI）。在门诊患者中，2.51%至少被诊断出患有一次抑郁症。医疗救助受益人（aOR = 1.97；95% CI = 1.96 - 1.98）比健康保险受益人更有可能被诊断出患有抑郁症。
