Impact of the first Covid-19 pandemic wave on first episode psychosis in Milan, italy
| Autor: | Alessio Fiorentini, S D'Angelo, Paolo Brambilla, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Cecilia Prunas, F. Giorgetti, Lucio Oldani, A. Callari, B. Viscardi, B. Dell Osso, G. Gargano, Ne Turtulici, E. Fontana, M. Macellaro, Barbara Giordano, F. Wiedenmann, Armando D'Agostino, Orsola Gambini |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Psychosis Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Brain damage Virus diseases Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine First episode psychosis Pandemic medicine Humans Biological Psychiatry business.industry SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 medicine.disease Mental illness 030227 psychiatry Hospitalization Reactive Psychosis Psychiatry and Mental health Italy Psychotic Disorders Psychosocial stress First-Episode Psychosis Brief Psychotic Episode Communicable Disease Control Female medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113802 |
| Popis: | The ongoing Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic appears to increase risk for mental illness, either directly due to inflammation caused by the virus or indirectly due to related psychosocial stress, resulting in the development of both anxious-depressive and psychotic symptoms. The purpose of the present study was to assess the frequency and characteristics of all patients with First Episodes Psychosis (FEP) without COVID-19 infection hospitalized in the first four months since lockdown in Milan. We recruited sixty-two patients hospitalized between March 8 to July 8, 2020 versus those first hospitalized in the same period in 2019. The two subgroups were compared for sociodemographic variables and clinical characteristics of the episodes. Patients with FEP in 2020 were significantly older than patients with FEP in 2021, and presented with significantly less substances abuse. Interestingly, patients presenting with FEP in 2020 were significantly older than patients with FEP in 2019. These data are compatible with the greater vulnerability to stressful factors during the pandemic, as well as with the greater concern regarding a possible COVID-19 infection producing brain damage causing the FEP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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