Influence of precipitation on psychiatric emergency care visits

Abstract

Introduction Psychiatric emergency care visits have been associated to several climate variables. However, the influence of precipitation has been understudied Objectives To study the association between precipitation and number of emergency care psychiatric visits. Methods Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31th December 2019. Precipitation data (measured as accumulated litres per square meter) was obtained from a local climate station. Spearman correlation was estimated. Results The Spearman correlation coefficient was -0.02(p = 0.80). Conclusions Precipitation was not associated to number of emergency visits. Disclosure No significant relationships.

Keywords

• Emergency Care
• Suicide