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Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 inpatients who underwent psychiatric consultations

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Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at risk of developing many neuropsychiatric disorders, due to the effects of the disease on the brain and the psychosocial pressures of having the disease.… Click to show full abstract

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at risk of developing many neuropsychiatric disorders, due to the effects of the disease on the brain and the psychosocial pressures of having the disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the characteristics and outcomes of patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19, who underwent psychiatric consultations. The medical records of 892 patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 and the 89 among them who requested psychiatric consultations were analyzed retrospectively. After the psychiatric consultations, patients were most frequently diagnosed with delirium (38.2%), adjustment disorder (27.0%), depressive disorder (19.1%) and anxiety disorder (11.2%). Patients with delirium had longer hospital stays (p < .001), were transferred more frequently to intensive care units (p < .001), and had higher mortality rates during their hospital stays (p < .001), than all other patients. The need for oxygen (p < .001) and mechanical ventilation (p < .001) was also significantly higher in delirium patients, as well as in patients who received other psychiatric diagnoses. Neuropsychiatric disorders develop in patients receiving inpatient treatments in COVID-19 wards, and these disorders negatively affect the prognosis of COVID-19. Our findings suggest that the presence of neuropsychiatric disorders in in-patients with COVID-19 might be associated with the negative outcomes of the disease.

Keywords: characteristics outcomes; psychiatric consultations; patients hospitalized; outcomes covid; neuropsychiatric disorders; underwent psychiatric

Journal Title: Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Year Published: 2021

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