Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on serious mental illness-related outpatient department utilization in Ningbo, China: an interrupted time series analysis

Globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively affected mental health services, but there is no clear evidence of this in China. Therefore, we examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of serious mental illness (SMI)-related outpatient services in Ningbo, Chi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in psychiatry 2023-07, Vol.14, p.1199408-1199408
Hauptverfasser: Li, Lian, Yang, Hongying, Zhang, Rongxiang, Wang, Yucheng, Bian, Guolin
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Zusammenfassung:Globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively affected mental health services, but there is no clear evidence of this in China. Therefore, we examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of serious mental illness (SMI)-related outpatient services in Ningbo, China. We analyzed the trends in monthly SMI-related outpatient department utilization from January 2018 to June 2022 using interrupted time series (ITS) regression analysis, and we defined the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as January 2020. We also performed ITS regression analyses for sex and age subgroups. A significant difference in the monthly number of outpatient visit slopes before and after the onset of the pandemic was shown in the SMI analysis [-175.6, 95% confidence interval (CI) (-338.3 to -12.9),  
ISSN:1664-0640
1664-0640
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1199408