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The impact of the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown on rates of violence and aggression on psychiatric inpatient wards

2021-03-12 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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AimsInpatient life in UK mental health hospitals was profoundly altered during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed whether these changes impacted the rate of violent and aggressive incidents across acute adult wards and psychiatric intensive care units in a South London NHS Mental Health Trust during the first UK lockdown. MethodsWe used an interrupted time series analysis to assess whether the rate of violent and aggressive incidents changed during the lockdown period from 23r...

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