Impact of community mental health services on the adult psychiatric admission through the emergency unit: a 20-year population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of real-life population-based study examining the effect of community mental health services on psychiatric emergency admission. In Hong Kong, Integrated Community Center for Mental Wellness (ICCMW) and telecare service were introduced in 2009 and 2012, respectively. We examined the real-life impact of these services on psychiatric emergency admissions over 20 years.

Methods

Number of psychiatric emergency admissions between 2001 and 2020 was retrieved from the Hong Kong Clinical Data Analysis & Reporting System. We used an interrupted time series analysis to examine monthly psychiatric admission trend before and after service implementation, considering socioeconomic and environmental covariates.

Findings

A total of 108,492 psychiatric emer

SUBMITTER: Ma CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10625018 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature