Question reference: S6W-13362
- Date lodged: 19 December 2022
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the publication, Neurological Conditions: estimating the prevalence in Scotland of selected conditions using General Practice and Hospital Admissions datasets, of those with a diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and in the GP practice dataset, how many were children whose age when the extract was taken was (a) under 5, (b) 5-11 and (c) 12-17.
Answer
This publication’s Supporting Documents include a spreadsheet file titled ‘General Practice recorded diagnoses’. Table 4 in this spreadsheet shows GP recorded diagnoses of neurological conditions, by sex and age. For each neurological condition shown, it gives the number of GP recorded diagnoses by sex in the following age bands: 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19. This data is shown in the following table. In some cases small numbers have been suppressed to help maintain patient confidentiality. We do not have data apportioned to the exact age bands in the question.
Number of people diagnosed with ME/CFS by sex and age group
Age 0-4 | Age 5-9 | Age 10-14 | Age 15-19 | |
Female | - | 7 | 16 | 115 |
Male | * | * | 27 | 77 |
(-) indicates a zero value
(*) indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality
Please note that that these figures do not cover the whole of Scotland. The general practices whose data are included represented 72.7% of registered patients at the time of the data extract.