Establishment of a Public Mental Health Database for Research Purposes in the Ferrara Province: Development and Preliminary Evaluation Study.
Maria FerraraElisabetta GentiliMartino Belvederi MurriRiccardo ZeseMarco AlbertiGiorgia FranchiniIlaria DomenicanoFederica FolesaniCristina SorioLorenzo BeniniPaola CarozzaJulian LittleLuigi GrassiPublished in: JMIR medical informatics (2023)
The process for building the FEPSY database proved to be robust and replicable with similar health care data, even when they were not originally conceived for research purposes. The FEPSY database will enable future in-depth analyses regarding the epidemiology and social determinants of mental disorders, access to mental health care, and resource utilization.