Impact of the first COVID-19 outbreak on mental health service utilisation at a Dutch mental health centre: retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies into mental health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic are limited to a few countries or specific type of service. In addition, data on changes in telepsychiatry are currently lacking.

Aims

We aimed to investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with changes in mental health service utilisation, including telepsychiatry, and how these changes were distributed among patients with mental illness during the first COVID-19 outbreak.

Method

This retrospective study obtained routinely assessed healthcare data from a large Dutch mental healthcare institute. Data from the second quarter of 2020 (the first COVID-19 outbreak period) were compared with the pre-pandemic period between January 2018 and March 2020. Time-series an

SUBMITTER: Chow MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632375 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature