Mental health care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in public healthcare centers of a Chilean municipality

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Published on 22 de marzo de 2023 | http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2023.02.2675

Mental health care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in public healthcare centers of a Chilean municipality

Median and comparative prevalence of risk factors, determinants, and mental health disorders.

Reason for consultation	Median prevalences 2019	Median prevalences 2020	P value
Risk factors and mental health determinants	0.2	0.1	0.606
Violence	0.1	0.1	1
Sexual abuse	0	0	0.116
Suicide	0	0	0.3
Mood (affective) disorders	1.9	1.8	0.748
Mild depression	0.6	0.4	0.3
Moderate depression	1.1	1	0.606
Severe depression	0.3	0	0.478
Postpartum depression	0	0	0.3
Bipolar disorder	0.1	0	0.949
Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychotropic substance abuse	1	0.4	0.008 ^a
Harmful use or alcohol dependence	0.5	0.2	0.171
Harmful use or drug dependence	0.4	0.1	0.001 ^a
Behavioral and emotional disorder of common onset in childhood and adolescence	0.6	0.5	0.438
Hyperkinetic disorder	0.4	0.3	0.699
Oppositional defiant and oppositional dissocial disorder	0.1	0	0.365
Separation anxiety disorder in childhood	0	0	0.151
Anxiety disorder	6.1	5.3	0.748
Post-traumatic stress disorder	0	0.1	0.3
Panic disorder with agoraphobia	0	0	0.652
Panic disorder without agoraphobia	0.2	0.5	0.151
Social phobias	0	0	0.949
Generalized anxiety disorders	0	0.5	0.562
Other anxiety disorders	5.4	4.3	0.438
Personality disorder	1.4	0.6	0.019 ^a
Pervasive developmental disorders	0.3	0.4	0.478

^a Test U Mann Whitney, p < 0,05.

Assisted patients at the 10 healthcare centers between the first semester of 2019 and 2020.

Source: Prepared by the authors based on the results of the study.