Decreased utilization of mental health emergency service during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the rapid rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction of the numbers of patients presenting to emergency departments has been observed. We present an early study from a German psychiatric hospital to assess the dynamics of mental health emergency service utilization rates during the COVID-19 p...

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Autores principales: Hoyer, Carolin, Ebert, Anne, Szabo, Kristina, Platten, Michael, Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas, Kranaster, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32519205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-020-01151-w
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Kranaster, Laura
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description During the rapid rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction of the numbers of patients presenting to emergency departments has been observed. We present an early study from a German psychiatric hospital to assess the dynamics of mental health emergency service utilization rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that the numbers of emergency presentations decreased, and a positive correlation between these numbers and mobility of the general public suggests an impact of extended measures of social distancing. This finding underscores the necessity of raising and sustaining awareness regarding the threat to mental health in the context of the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-72824632020-06-10 Decreased utilization of mental health emergency service during the COVID-19 pandemic Hoyer, Carolin Ebert, Anne Szabo, Kristina Platten, Michael Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas Kranaster, Laura Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci Short Communication During the rapid rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction of the numbers of patients presenting to emergency departments has been observed. We present an early study from a German psychiatric hospital to assess the dynamics of mental health emergency service utilization rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that the numbers of emergency presentations decreased, and a positive correlation between these numbers and mobility of the general public suggests an impact of extended measures of social distancing. This finding underscores the necessity of raising and sustaining awareness regarding the threat to mental health in the context of the pandemic. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7282463/ /pubmed/32519205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-020-01151-w Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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