作者
Felipe Ornell, Wyllians Vendramini Borelli, Daniela Benzano, Jaqueline Bohrer Schuch, Helena Ferreira Moura, Anne Orgler Sordi, Felix Henrique Paim Kessler, Juliana Nichterwitz Scherer, Lisia von Diemen
发表日期
2021/12/1
期刊
The Lancet Regional Health–Americas
卷号
4
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Studies have reported the worsening of psychiatric symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few studies have evaluated the impact on the access to mental health services during COVID-19. Our aim was to analyze temporal trends and prediction of appointments held in Brazil's public health system, to compare the observed and expected number of mental healthcare appointments during the COVID-19 pandemics.
Methods
An ecological time-series study was performed, analyzing mental health appointments before and during the pandemic (from 2016 and 2020) from the Brazilian governmental database. The structural break in the data series was assessed using the Chow test, with the break considered in March 2020. Bayesian structural time-series models were used to estimate current average appointments and the predicted expectation if there was no pandemic.
Findings
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