ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2022
"Effect of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic outbreak on the emergency department admission for an acute psychiatric condition".
Article in Journal of psychiatric research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The effect of COVID-19 and socioeconomic inequalities on emergency department accesses for psychiatric conditions.PloS one · 2026Article
- Trends in psychiatric emergency visits: insights from France's largest psychiatric emergency department.International journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- [Mental health surveillance at the Robert Koch Institute - strategies for monitoring the mental health of the population].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023Review
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Abstract
Preliminary evidence seems to suggest a reduction in absolute terms of Emergency Department (ED) admissions for an acute psychiatric condition during the first months of the pandemic. The study aimed to test through a long-term time analysis the effect of COVID-19 on changes in ED visits for an acute psychiatric condition. A quasi-experimental interrupted time series analysis of admissions for acute psychiatric conditions to the Emergency Department of the Merano Hospital (Italy) was performed from January 2017 to August 2021. The main outcome was the monthly rate of ED accesses for an acute psychiatric condition reported per 1000 general admissions. The pandemic outbreak was used as an intervention point. 4398 ED admissions for an acute psychiatric condition were registered. The rate of monthly admissions over total admissions increased from a mean of March 17, 1000 (SD 2.9) admissions per month in the pre-COVID-19 era to September 22, 1000 (SD 4.5) in the pandemic months, p < 0.001. In March 2020, the pandemic outbreak led to a significant increase in ED visits for an acute psychiatric condition (p = 0.013) and suicide attempts (p = 0.029), and to an increased need for pharmacological sedation in ED (p = 0.001). During the pandemic, although admissions and hospitalizations showed a non-significant decreasing trend, suicide attempts increased steadily and significantly. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major increase in rates of admission to the ED for an acute psychiatric condition.
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