Incidence of mental health diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multinational network study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Population-wide restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic may create barriers to mental health diagnosis. This study aims to examine changes in the number of incident cases and the incidence rates of mental health diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

By using electronic health records from France, Germany, Italy, South Korea and the UK and claims data from the US, this study conducted interrupted time-series analyses to compare the monthly incident cases and the incidence of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol misuse or dependence, substance misuse or dependence, bipolar disorders, personality disorders and psychoses diagnoses before (January 2017 to February 2020) and after (April 2020 to the latest available date of each database [up to Novembe

SUBMITTER: Chai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10940053 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature