Background: Increasing clinical evidence suggests that people with severe mental illness
(SMI), including schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder (BD), and major …

Importance Heterogeneous evidence exists for the association between COVID-19 and the
clinical outcomes of patients with mental health disorders. It remains unknown whether …

Objective Schizophrenia has been associated with patients' poor quality of life, disability,
and hospitalization. As of today, evidence that highlights the association between …

Objective Psychiatric disorders have been associated with unfavourable outcome following
respiratory infections. Whether this also applies to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) …

BackgroundEpidemiological data on the association between mental disorders and the risk
of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and …

Importance People with major psychiatric disorders are more likely to have comorbidities
associated with worse outcomes of COVID-19. This fact alone could determine greater …

Several observational studies investigated the relationship between pre-diagnosis with
mental disorders and COVID-19 outcomes. Thus, we have decided to conduct this meta …

Importance To date, the association of psychiatric diagnoses with mortality in patients
infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has not been evaluated. Objective To …

Background Mental disorders might be a risk factor for severe COVID-19. We aimed to
assess the specific risks of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care …

Objective Individuals with schizophrenia may be at an increased risk for COVID-19 morbidity
due to the disease characteristics. In this study, we aimed to explore the odds of significant …