Shao Ying, Xu Jiahui, Qiao Ying, Shao Yang, Fei Jian-Ming
Hospital Administration Office, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States.
Front Psychiatry. 2020 Dec 7;11:523059. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.523059. eCollection 2020.
Climate changes affect mental states and alter the risk for psychiatric diseases. Seasonal changes in temperature lead to dynamics in the occurrence of psychiatric conditions and pose challenges in the administration of clinical psychiatry services. The present study aims to retrospectively analyze outpatient data with weather reports from January 2014 to March 2019 at Shanghai Mental Health Center, one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the world, in order to provide policy insights into the administration of psychiatric clinics. The results show steady increases in the number of overall patients over the past 5 years with several peaks within each year. Temperature changes and weather information reliably predict the increased number of psychiatric patients. We conclude that mental health hospitals should prepare for patient dynamics based on the weather forecast.
气候变化会影响精神状态，并改变患精神疾病的风险。气温的季节性变化会导致精神疾病发病率的动态变化，并给临床精神科服务的管理带来挑战。本研究旨在回顾性分析2014年1月至2019年3月期间世界上最大的精神病医院之一上海精神卫生中心的门诊数据与气象报告，以便为精神科门诊的管理提供政策见解。结果显示，在过去5年中，患者总数稳步增加，且每年有几个峰值。温度变化和天气信息能够可靠地预测精神科患者数量的增加。我们得出结论，精神卫生医院应根据天气预报为患者动态变化做好准备。
