Observational studyThe Psychiatric quarterly2021
Urgent Psychiatric Consultations at Mental Health Center during COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Observational Study.
Observational study in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Utilization of mental health services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic - a systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health services: A systematic review.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Pooled it
- A Comparative Analysis of Psychiatric Consultations Across Emergency, Hospital, and Community Mental Health Settings.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Causes and frequency of psychiatric counselling requests in hospitalized patients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sabzevar, Iran between 2019-2020.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Clinical symptoms and risk factors in people with mental disorders: findings from the interRAI emergency screener for psychiatry in Brazil.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Trends in psychiatric emergency visits: insights from France's largest psychiatric emergency department.International journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Changes in the number and characteristics of tertiary hospital psychiatric admissions in south Croatia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact of Telemedicine on Utilization of Psychiatric Resources in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Hospitalizations in an Acute Psychiatric Ward.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
- Descriptive study of mental health care users 12 months pre- and post-COVID-19 lockdown.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2024Article
- The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Services: A Comparison Between First Psychiatric Consultations Before and After the Pandemic.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- [Analysis with Google Trends and Our World in Data on Global Mental Health in the Context of the covid-19 Pandemic].Revista colombiana de psiquiatria · 2023Article
- Involuntary psychiatric treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. An international qualitative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Involuntary Hospitalizations in an Italian Acute Psychiatric Ward: A 6-Year Retrospective Analysis.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- First access to mental health services during COVID-19 pandemic: A multicenter study.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2022Article
- [Description of a telehealth mental health programme in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia].Revista colombiana de psiquiatria · 2022Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Emergencies in Two Different Settings: Emergency Room and Community Mental Health Service.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on the Italian Mental Health System: A Narrative Review.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic and related social distancing measures have brought about dramatic changes in people's lives. In particular, health workers have been forced to change their activities both for the different needs of patients and for preventive measures against the spread of the virus. This study is aimed at comparing the urgent psychiatric consultations (UPC) performed at the outpatient Mental Health Center (MHC) of Modena during the coronavirus outbreak period, from 1 March to 31 August 2020, with the same period in 2019. We retrospectively collected in a database the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who required UPC in the MHC during the 6-month observation periods in both 2019 and 2020. Data were statistically analyzed. We analyzed 656 urgent psychiatric consultations in 2019 and 811 in 2020, requested by 425 patients in 2019 and 488 in 2020, respectively. In the pandemic period, we observed an increase in the total and daily number of UPC which were more frequently required by patients in care at local outpatient services in comparison with the previous period. During 2020, an increased number of UPC was carried out remotely and the outcome was more frequently represented by discharge at home, avoiding hospitalization as much as possible. In the course of the coronavirus pandemic, MHC had to face an increased demand for clinical activity especially from the most clinically and socially vulnerable patients, who more frequently required UPC in outpatient psychiatric services.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.