Abstract
IntroductionPsychiatric emergency visits have with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect psychosocial factors. Its knowledge could proving valuable insight about help seeking behaviour of patiens suffering with mental illness.ObjectivesOur aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonalityMethodsDaily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. A poisson multivariate model was performed with day of the week and month as covariates. Predictive margins were estimatedResultsPsychiatric emergency visits were less frequent in Saturday and Sunday (5.5 visits per day) than weekdays (7.5 visits per day). Not differences were observed among months.ConclusionsA weekly season pattern was observed with less psychiatric emergency visits during weekends.DisclosureNo significant relationships.
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