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ArticleBMC psychiatry2023

Utilisation of rehabilitation due to mental disorders during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a difference-in-differences analysis.

Matthias Bethge, David Fauser, Pia Zollmann, Marco Streibelt

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Article in BMC psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthias Bethge *Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562, Lübeck, Germany. matthias.bethge@uksh.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6417-7812
David Fauser *Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3845-3094
Pia ZollmannFederal German Pension Insurance, Berlin, Germany.
Marco StreibeltFederal German Pension Insurance, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2834-9354
German Insurance Association · DEUniversity of Lübeck · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOur analyses examined the extent to which the use of rehabilitation for patients with mental disorders decreased due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

methodsWe used monthly cross-sectional administrative data on rehabilitation utilisation due to mental disorders in 2019 and 2020 and estimated a difference-in-differences model to determine the reduction in rehabilitation utilisation attributable to the pandemic.

resultsWe included 151,775 rehabilitations in 2019 and 123,229 rehabilitations in 2020 in our analysis. The number of rehabilitations decreased from April to December by 14.2% due to the pandemic (March to December: 21.8%). The decline was more pronounced for women than for men and varied regionally. Temporal and regional differences in utilisation were moderately associated with the decrease in mobility in the pandemic year. In the first phase of the pandemic, i.e., March and April 2020, the decline was strongly associated with the regional incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

conclusionDue to the pandemic, significantly fewer rehabilitations due to mental disorders occurred in Germany in 2020 than in 2019. The likely increasing need for rehabilitation for people with mental disorders should be addressed by making rehabilitation access and delivery more flexible.

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COVID-19Mental DisordersCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMalePandemicsSARS-CoV-2Mental disordersMental health servicesRehabilitationSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36879211
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