Adiyaman Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Psychiatry, Adiyaman, Turkey,
Psychiatr Danub. 2022 Summer;34(2):342-347. doi: 10.24869/psyd.2022.342.
Several cases of psychosis caused directly or indirectly by the COVID-19 pandemic have been identified. Especially psychosocial stress factors are thought to trigger first-episode psychosis. The aim of this study was to compare the sociodemographic and clinical features of the cases diagnosed with psychotic disorder for the first time in the two periods 1 year before and 1 year after the date of 11.03.2020, when COVID-19 was first detected in Turkey and COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO).
In this retrospective cohort study, we compared age, gender, marital status, and clinical characteristics of 27 pre-pandemic (PR) and 32 post-pandemic (PS) patients during their first psychotic episode.
We compared age, gender and clinical features of PR and PS cases and no statistically significant difference was found (age p=0.836, gender p=0.091, clinical features p=0.579).
There are a limited number of studies comparing first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients in the PR and PS periods. This is the first study conducted in Turkey on this subject. The present study may contribute to the literature by examining the impact of the pandemic process on the epidemiology of psychiatric diseases.
已经确定了几例直接或间接由 COVID-19 大流行引起的精神病病例。特别是心理社会应激因素被认为会引发首发精神病。本研究的目的是比较在土耳其首次发现 COVID-19 之日（2020 年 3 月 11 日）前后的一年中首次被诊断为精神病障碍的病例的社会人口学和临床特征，COVID-19 被世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布为大流行。
在这项回顾性队列研究中，我们比较了 27 例大流行前（PR）和 32 例大流行后（PS）首发精神病患者的年龄、性别、婚姻状况和临床特征。
我们比较了 PR 和 PS 病例的年龄、性别和临床特征，没有发现统计学上的显著差异（年龄 p=0.836，性别 p=0.091，临床特征 p=0.579）。
比较大流行前和大流行后首发精神病（FEP）患者的研究数量有限。这是在土耳其进行的关于这一主题的第一项研究。本研究通过检查大流行过程对精神疾病流行病学的影响，可能为文献做出贡献。
