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- Title
A study report on the effect of COVID-19 pandemic in providing in-and-out-patient psychiatric services in a level-3 COVID hospital.
- Authors
Singh, Deepa; Pandey, Richa; Yadav, Gaurav S.; Agrawal, Prabhat K.; Khan, Amil H.; Aich, Tapas K.
- Abstract
Background: COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all routine and emergency hospital services, including our out-and-in-patient psychiatric services. Aim: To study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in providing in-and-out-patient psychiatric services and the experience of tele-consultation services in our level-3 COVID hospital. Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study using an administrative database at psychiatry in-and-out-patient department. All the cases that were reported to us, through emergency Out-Patient Department (OPD) and tele-consultation OPD, from April 2020 to October 2020, were included in the study. Data, thus obtained, were compared with the out-and-in-patient data during the same period on the previous year. Results: During the study period, there was a decline in out-patient registration of patients by 94.5%, and a reduction in admission rate was 75.5%, in comparison with the previous year. During 3 months of tele-consultation service provided, 23.5% of patients had the diagnosis of depression, 21.4% of them had various types of headaches, 15.9% of patients had psychosis, 15.3% had anxiety disorders, and 8.8% had a bipolar-affective disorder. Conclusion: Being a level-3 COVID hospital, our hospital suffered significantly in relation to psychiatric in-and-out-patients attendance and service recipients during the study period of COVID-19 pandemic.
- Subjects
PSYCHIATRIC treatment; OUTPATIENT services in hospitals; SCIENTIFIC observation; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL patients; HOSPITALS; TELEPSYCHIATRY; RETROSPECTIVE studies; AFFECTIVE disorders; STAY-at-home orders; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOSES; ANXIETY disorders; COVID-19 pandemic; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023, Vol 65, Issue 9, p961
- ISSN
0019-5545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_744_21