{"id":1769,"date":"2020-10-23T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:07:45","slug":"disparities-in-outpatient-visits-for-mental-health-and-or-substance-use-disorders-during-the-covid-surge-and-partial-reopening-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/disparities-in-outpatient-visits-for-mental-health-and-or-substance-use-disorders-during-the-covid-surge-and-partial-reopening-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Disparities in Outpatient Visits for Mental Health and\/or Substance Use Disorders during the COVID Surge and Partial Reopening in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Following a sharp drop in outpatient visits for mental health and\/or substance use disorders early in the COVID-19 period, there was and increase in these visits over the course of the surge period in Massachusetts, supported by telemedicine, which was used in more than 80% of visits. During the surge, mental health visit volume increased 12% while visits for substance use disorders remained 13% below pre-pandemic levels. During partial reopening, while mental health visits returned to 2020 pre-pandemic levels, substance use disorder visits declined 31%. Mental health and substance use disorder visits decreased among individuals who were Hispanic (\u221233%) and non-Hispanic Black (\u221225%), and among people who were enrolled in Medicaid (\u221219%) and Medicare (\u221221%). The authors conclude that the decrease in mental health and substance abuse visits after the surge to levels below the pre-pandemic period may reflect barriers to accessing care, with evidence of racial\/ethnic disparities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yang et al. (Nov 2020). Disparities in Outpatient Visits for Mental Health and\/or Substance Use Disorders during the COVID Surge and Partial Reopening in Massachusetts. General Hospital Psychiatry. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.genhosppsych.2020.09.004\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.genhosppsych.2020.09.004<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a sharp drop in outpatient visits for mental health and\/or substance use disorders early in the COVID-19 period, there was and increase in these visits over the course of the surge period in Massachusetts, supported by telemedicine, which was used in more than 80% of visits. During the surge, mental health visit volume increased&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/disparities-in-outpatient-visits-for-mental-health-and-or-substance-use-disorders-during-the-covid-surge-and-partial-reopening-in-massachusetts\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}