Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health service use among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim was to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health service use according to mental disorder diagnosis among psychiatric outpatients.

Methods

Psychiatric outpatient visits and patient diagnostic information were extracted from the EHR(electronic health records) of a Korean tertiary hospital during 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and 3 months before the COVID-19 outbreak. Visit rates of psychiatric outpatients according to primary psychiatric diagnosis category before and after the COVID-19 pandemic were compared using an over-dispersed Poisson regression model. The temporal associations between the number of daily outpatient visits and the daily number of newly confirmed cases were examined by time-series analysis within each diagnosis ca

SUBMITTER: Seo JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9754757 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature