Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive psychiatric in-patients: A case-control study in the psychiatric wards of a Great Metropolitan Hospital in Milan.
COVID-19
General hospital psychiatric ward
Psychiatric hospitalization
Journal
Psychiatry research
ISSN: 1872-7123
Titre abrégé: Psychiatry Res
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7911385
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2023
04 2023
Historique:
received:
06
10
2022
revised:
24
12
2022
accepted:
27
12
2022
pubmed:
4
2
2023
medline:
15
3
2023
entrez:
3
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
During the first Covid-19 outbreak, the Niguarda Hospital of Milan featured two Psychiatry wards, one for SARS-CoV-2 positive patient and one for patients requiring hospitalization and negative for SARS-CoV-2. The two groups of patients were compared and were similar in distribution of psychiatric diagnosis, duration of illness and previous hospitalizations. SARS-CoV-2 positive participants had a lower severity of symptoms both at admission and discharge, a lower frequency of psychotic symptoms and substance intoxication at admission. These findings suggest that patients admitted to the COVID ward were hospitalized not only for their mental health condition but also because of the infection.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36736155
pii: S0165-1781(22)00633-3
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.115042
pmc: PMC9795794
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115042Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The Authors declare that they have no competing interests.