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Influence of precipitation on psychiatric emergency care visits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

D. Hernández-Calle  and
M.F. Bravo-Ortiz
D. Hernández-Calle*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
M.F. Bravo-Ortiz
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Psychiatric emergency care visits have been associated to several climate variables. However, the influence of precipitation has been understudied

Objectives

To study the association between precipitation and number of emergency care psychiatric visits.

Methods

Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31th December 2019. Precipitation data (measured as accumulated litres per square meter) was obtained from a local climate station. Spearman correlation was estimated.

Results

The Spearman correlation coefficient was -0.02(p = 0.80).

Conclusions

Precipitation was not associated to number of emergency visits.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Emergency CareSuicide
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S708
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