Excess Healthcare Resource Use Among Subgroups With Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Hungary

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Ferenczik A1, Balázs P2, Brodszky V3
1Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Economics and Business Informatics, Department of Health Policy, Budapest, Hungary, 2Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Business and Management, Department of Health Policy, Budapest, Hungary, 3Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Health Policy, Budapest, PE, Hungary

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OBJECTIVES: The mental diseases negatively impact the health status and increase the use of health resources. Our aim was to compare healthcare resource utilization among subgroups with different anxiety and depressive symptoms.

METHODS: A large, representative cross-sectional, online, self-completed questionnaire survey was carried out in 2021 August among the Hungarian general population. Anxiety (GAD-7) and depression (PHQ-9) measurement tools were used to rate the severity of symptoms. As part of a larger survey, healthcare resource utilization (GP visit, hospital admission and psychologist consultation – in the last 3 month) and sociodemographic data were collected.

RESULTS: The questionnaire was completed by 2000 respondents. The mean age of the sample was 47.3 (16.9) years, majority of the respondents was female (57.3%). The prevalence of no, mild, moderate and severe anxiety and of no, mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depression was 57.0%, 26.4%, 11.0%, 5.6% and 53.1%, 24.9%, 11.9%, 6.6%, 3.6%, respectively. In the subgroups with no, mild, moderate and severe anxiety, at least one GP visit, hospital admission and psychologist consultation were reported by 50.1% (with an average of 1.03 visit), 53.1% (1.26), 58.5% (2.3), 60.2% (1.9) and 2.7% (0.05), 4.1% (0.09), 11.9% (0.68), 3.4% (0.03) and 1.1% (0.02), 6.1% (0.13), 14.5% (0.39), 12.5% (0.33) of the respondents, respectively. A similar trend, increasing resource use with symptom severity, was also observed in the subgroups with no, mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depression: at least one GP visit, hospital admission and psychologist consultation were reported by 50.1% (1.01), 53.9% (1.24), 53.8% (1.71), 58.6% (2.07), 60% (2.72) and 2.3% (0.04), 4.7% (0.09), 6.9% (0.48), 11.8% (0.35), 3.5% (0.04) and 0.9% (0.02), 4.6% (0.1), 9.7% (0.26), 16.7% (0.39), 16.7% (0.4) of the respondents, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study has showed the higher healthcare resource use among respondents with more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Code

EE647

Topic

Economic Evaluation

Disease

Mental Health (including addition), No Additional Disease & Conditions/Specialized Treatment Areas