Admissions to psychiatric inpatient services and use of coercive measures in 2020 in a Swiss psychiatric department: An interrupted time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The CoVID pandemic and the associated lockdown had a significant impact on mental health services. Inpatient services faced the challenge of offering acute psychiatric while implementing strict infection control measures. There is, however, a lack of studies investigating the use of coercive measures during the pandemic and their relation to hospitalizations and symptom severity.

Aims

To investigate the effects of the CoVID outbreak on psychiatric admissions, use of seclusion and symptom severity.

Method

Using routine data from 2019 and 2020 gathered in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geneva University Hospitals, we performed an interrupted time series analysis. This included the number of psychiatric hospitalizations, the proportion of people who exper

SUBMITTER: Wullschleger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10374153 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature