Seasonal patterns in psychiatric emergency care visits

Abstract

Introduction Psychiatric emergency visits have with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect psychosocial factors. Its knowledge could proving valuable insight about help seeking behaviour of patiens suffering with mental illness. Objectives Our aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonality Methods Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. A poisson multivariate model was performed with day of the week and month as covariates. Predictive margins were estimated Results Psychiatric emergency visits were less frequent in Saturday and Sunday (5.5 visits per day) than weekdays (7.5 visits per day). Not differences were observed among months. Conclusions A weekly season pattern was observed with less psychiatric emergency visits during weekends. Disclosure No significant relationships.

Keywords

• Emergency Care