Psychiatric hospitalization rates in Italy before and during COVID-19: did they change? An analysis of register data
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine2020Vol. 37(4), pp. 283–290
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Massimo Clerici, Federico Durbano, Franco Spinogatti, Antonio Vita, Giovanni de Girolamo, Rocco Micciolo
Abstract
Large-scale pandemics can modify voluntary admission rates to psychiatric facilities in the early phases following pandemic onset. We suggest that the reduction in admission rates may be due to fear of hospitals, seen as possible sites of contagion, as well as to a change in thresholds of behavioral problems acting as a trigger for admission requests from family relatives or referrals from treating clinicians. It is unclear from the study whether the reduction in admissions was contributed to most by the current pandemic or the lockdown imposed due to the pandemic.
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