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Seasonal patterns in psychiatric emergency care visits
INTRODUCTION: Psychiatric emergency visits have with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect psychosocial factors. Its knowledge could proving valuable insight about help seeking behaviour of patiens suffering with mental illness. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonali...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479949/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1876 |
Sumario: | INTRODUCTION: Psychiatric emergency visits have with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect psychosocial factors. Its knowledge could proving valuable insight about help seeking behaviour of patiens suffering with mental illness. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonality METHODS: Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. A poisson multivariate model was performed with day of the week and month as covariates. Predictive margins were estimated RESULTS: Psychiatric emergency visits were less frequent in Saturday and Sunday (5.5 visits per day) than weekdays (7.5 visits per day). Not differences were observed among months. CONCLUSIONS: A weekly season pattern was observed with less psychiatric emergency visits during weekends. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. |
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