The COVID-19 Outbreak and Subjects With Mental Disorders Who Presented to an Italian Psychiatric Emergency Department
| Autor: | Denise Erbuto, Benedetta Montalbani, Benedetta Imbastaro, Salvatore Sarubbi, Gabriele Pasquale De Luca, Paride Bargagna, Maurizio Pompili, Martina Mastrangelo, Anna Comparelli, Gaia Anibaldi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Suicidal Ideation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic medicine Humans COVID-19 psychiatric disorders suicide mental health psychiatric emergency Psychiatry Suicidal ideation Pandemics suicide Aged Retrospective Studies business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Mental Disorders Outbreak COVID-19 Retrospective cohort study Emergency department Middle Aged Mental health psychiatric emergency 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Distress psychiatric disorders Italy Social Isolation Female medicine.symptom business Emergency Service Hospital 030217 neurology & neurosurgery mental health Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X |
| Popis: | We performed a retrospective study from January to May 2020 to establish the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with mental health problems who arrived at an Italian emergency department during the COVID-19 outbreak. We divided the sample into two groups taking as a watershed March 11, when the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. Chi-square/t-tests, adjusted p values (Bonferroni method), and regression analysis were performed. Patients who arrived at the emergency department during the lockdown decreased by 56%; showed greater active suicidal ideation, more tension, and more severe psychopathological state; were living alone more frequently; and were taking home treatment mainly based on second-generation antipsychotics. According to our study, it seems that patients with mental disorders have consulted psychiatric services less frequently during the pandemic, but the economic, health, and social distress may be linked with an increase in suicidal risk and the severity of the psychopathological state. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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