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Help Seeking of Highly Specialized Mental Health Treatment before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Health Professionals

(1) Background: Ongoing specialized programs for health professionals (HPs) adapted their treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study of medical e-records of HPs with mental disorders working in Catalonia that were consecutively admi...

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Autores principales: Braquehais, María Dolores, Gómez-Duran, Esperanza L., Nieva, Gemma, Valero, Sergi, Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni, Bruguera, Eugeni
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8951467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329351
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063665
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author Braquehais, María Dolores
Gómez-Duran, Esperanza L.
Nieva, Gemma
Valero, Sergi
Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni
Bruguera, Eugeni
author_facet Braquehais, María Dolores
Gómez-Duran, Esperanza L.
Nieva, Gemma
Valero, Sergi
Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni
Bruguera, Eugeni
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description (1) Background: Ongoing specialized programs for health professionals (HPs) adapted their treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study of medical e-records of HPs with mental disorders working in Catalonia that were consecutively admitted to the Galatea Care Program Clinical Unit. The sample (N = 1461) was divided into two periods: 21.5 months before (n = 637) and after (n = 824) 14 March 2020. (3) Results: There was a significant increase (29.4%) in the number of referrals to the specialized Clinical Unit during the pandemic, especially with respect to physicians compared to nurses. The percentage of HP women at admission and the clinical severity of the first treatment episode remained without changes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The most prevalent main diagnoses also remained similar: adjustment disorders (41.5%), mood disorders (24.9%), anxiety disorders (14.4%), and substance use disorders (11.8%). (4) Conclusions: HPs, particularly physicians, more frequently sought voluntary help from specialized mental health programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies are needed to analyze the reasons behind this finding and the evolution of referrals to these types of programs after the COVID-19 outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-89514672022-03-26 Help Seeking of Highly Specialized Mental Health Treatment before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Health Professionals Braquehais, María Dolores Gómez-Duran, Esperanza L. Nieva, Gemma Valero, Sergi Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni Bruguera, Eugeni Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: Ongoing specialized programs for health professionals (HPs) adapted their treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study of medical e-records of HPs with mental disorders working in Catalonia that were consecutively admitted to the Galatea Care Program Clinical Unit. The sample (N = 1461) was divided into two periods: 21.5 months before (n = 637) and after (n = 824) 14 March 2020. (3) Results: There was a significant increase (29.4%) in the number of referrals to the specialized Clinical Unit during the pandemic, especially with respect to physicians compared to nurses. The percentage of HP women at admission and the clinical severity of the first treatment episode remained without changes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The most prevalent main diagnoses also remained similar: adjustment disorders (41.5%), mood disorders (24.9%), anxiety disorders (14.4%), and substance use disorders (11.8%). (4) Conclusions: HPs, particularly physicians, more frequently sought voluntary help from specialized mental health programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies are needed to analyze the reasons behind this finding and the evolution of referrals to these types of programs after the COVID-19 outbreak. MDPI 2022-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8951467/ /pubmed/35329351 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063665 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329351
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063665
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