Mental Health Presentations Across Health Care Settings During the First 9 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in England: Retrospective Observational Study.

Gillian E Smith Sally E Harcourt Uy Hoang Agnieszka Lemanska Alex J Elliot Roger Antony Morbey Helen E Hughes Iain R Lake Obaghe Edeghere Isabel Oliver Julian Sherlock Richard Amlȏt Simon de Lusignan

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2022)

These analyses showed marked changes in the health care attendances and prescribing for common mental health conditions across a spectrum of health care provision, with some of these changes persisting. The reasons for such changes are likely to be complex and multifactorial. The impact of the pandemic on mental health may not be fully understood for some time, and therefore, these syndromic indicators should continue to be monitored.

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