Neuropsychiatric symptoms in the psychiatric counseling of patients admitted with COVID-19 infection

•The present study results showed that 7.3% of the Covid-19 patients received psychiatric consultations. Other studies have found that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in hospitalized patients varied from 30% to 60%. Therefore, while 30 to 60 percent of patients hospitalized in general hospitals suffer from at least one psychiatric disorder, few of them receive psychiatric consultation services.•The most frequent reasons for consultation requests were restlessness and aggression.•Dyspnea, coughing and fever were the most prevalent symptoms in Covid-19 patients.•In 92.4% of the consultations, a psychiatric diagnosis was confirmed with insomnia, delirium and anxiety being the most common symptoms.•Most underlying medical conditions included diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart diseases. All patients without psychiatric disorders had O2 saturation level above 90%. Covid-19 patients suffer from psychiatric disorders too. The present study was designed to investigate the rate of psychiatric consultation requests in a general hospital. Reasons for consultation requests, types of psychiatric diagnoses, and factors in consultation requests were also investigated. This cross-sectional study included all patients admitted with Covid-19 and referred to psychiatric consultation service in a major Covid-19 center in Tehran, Iran (2020). After acceing patients’ electronic files, records of patients’ demographic information, positive psychiatric symptoms, past psychiatric history and DSM5 diagnoses were made. Statistical analyses were done in SPSS 26 using descriptive statistics and chi-square and Fisher's exact test (p