Organisation and timeline of measures in French psychiatric establishments during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic: EvOlu'Psy study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The onset of COVID-19 required rapid organisational changes in the mental health domain. Most mental health-care departments appear to have set up infection control measures and also organised planning, coordination and measures that enabled them to provide psychiatric care in a restrictive environment. Our objective was to assess the organisation by psychiatric facilities in France of their response to COVID-19, during the first wave.

Methods

In June 2020, a cross-sectional study was performed by an audit with 48 items which was proposed to 331 hospitals in metropolitan France with a capacity for full-time, that is, inpatient psychiatric hospitalisation of adults.

Results

Of the 331 establishments contacted, 94 (28.4%) agreed to respond to the survey quest

SUBMITTER: Legrand G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169419 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature