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 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.