Abstract
COVID-19 highlights negligence with psychiatry patients in Brazilian general hospitals: a call for action
Highlights
COVID-19 evidencia a negligência com pacientes psiquiátricos em hospitais gerais brasileiros: uma chamada para a ação
Considering the fact that acutely mentally ill patients can be challenging, especially for untrained health staff, alongside with all the psychological and environmental stress precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, psychiatric patients are currently under even higher risk of medical negligence and larger delay until intervention (DUI)
A recent multicenter controlled study[3] proposed an antistigma intervention curriculum (ASIC), where medical students were submitted to clinical encounters with people living with serious mental illnesses followed by supervised small group discussions
Summary
COVID-19 evidencia a negligência com pacientes psiquiátricos em hospitais gerais brasileiros: uma chamada para a ação. DEAR EDITOR, It is well known that due to multiple factors, psychiatric patients experience almost a decade of delay until intervention (DUI) to initiate a mental health treatment[1]. Some authors have already pointed out to a marked increase in mortality rate in individuals with mental disorders, highlighting a worse and delayed quality of healthcare for psychiatric patients with non-psychiatric illnesses[2].
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