Associations between primary care recorded cannabis use and mental ill health in the UK: a population-based retrospective cohort study using UK primary care data

Journal article

These findings point to the potential need for a public health approach to the management of people misusing cannabis. However, there is a gross under-recording of cannabis use in GP records, as seen by the prevalence of recorded cannabis exposure substantially lower than self-reported survey records.

Authors: Keerthy, D; Chandan, JS; Abramovaite, J; Gokhale, KM; Bandyopadhyay, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Journal: Psychological Medicine
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 2106-2115
• Publication date: 2021-10-01
• DOI: 10.1017/s003329172100386x
• EISSN: 1469-8978
• ISSN: 0033-2917
• Language: English
• Keywords: Odds ratio; Anxiety; Confidence interval; Medicine; Cannabis; Mental health; Mental illness; Depression (economics); Internal medicine; Cohort; Population; Hazard ratio; Retrospective cohort study; Cohort study; Environmental health; Psychiatry