COVID-19 and psychiatric admissions: An observational study of the first six months of lockdown in Melbourne

Research on the effect of a prolonged lockdown on inpatient admissions is limited. In this background, this study was planned, and it included patients admitted to inpatient units of a large mental health network in Melbourne during the lockdown (March 16–September 16, 2020) and a similar time perio...

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Autores principales: Jagadheesan, Karuppiah, Danivas, Vijay, Itrat, Quratulain, Sekharan, Lokesh, Lakra, Assoc Prof Vinay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7986313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33799197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113902
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Danivas, Vijay
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description Research on the effect of a prolonged lockdown on inpatient admissions is limited. In this background, this study was planned, and it included patients admitted to inpatient units of a large mental health network in Melbourne during the lockdown (March 16–September 16, 2020) and a similar time period in 2019. The results showed a 12% decrease in admissions. The lockdown period included patients with lower mean age and more patients with never married status, higher education status, students and patients with home duties, and certain psychiatric diagnoses. Overall, the patients needing inpatient treatment during a prolonged lockdown are different.
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spelling pubmed-79863132021-03-24 COVID-19 and psychiatric admissions: An observational study of the first six months of lockdown in Melbourne Jagadheesan, Karuppiah Danivas, Vijay Itrat, Quratulain Sekharan, Lokesh Lakra, Assoc Prof Vinay Psychiatry Res Short Communication Research on the effect of a prolonged lockdown on inpatient admissions is limited. In this background, this study was planned, and it included patients admitted to inpatient units of a large mental health network in Melbourne during the lockdown (March 16–September 16, 2020) and a similar time period in 2019. The results showed a 12% decrease in admissions. The lockdown period included patients with lower mean age and more patients with never married status, higher education status, students and patients with home duties, and certain psychiatric diagnoses. Overall, the patients needing inpatient treatment during a prolonged lockdown are different. Elsevier B.V. 2021-06 2021-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7986313/ /pubmed/33799197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113902 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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COVID-19 and psychiatric admissions: An observational study of the first six months of lockdown in Melbourne
title COVID-19 and psychiatric admissions: An observational study of the first six months of lockdown in Melbourne
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113902
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