{"id":4474,"date":"2021-02-19T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:13:54","slug":"indirect-acute-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-and-mental-health-in-the-uk-a-population-based-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/indirect-acute-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-and-mental-health-in-the-uk-a-population-based-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Indirect Acute Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical and Mental Health in the UK: A Population-Based Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review of electronic health records from a database that includes health information for &gt;10 million individuals in the UK found a substantial reduction in primary care contacts for both acute physical and mental conditions in the four months following the introduction of movement restrictions to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The largest relative reductions when compared to previous years\u2019 records were observed for diabetic emergencies (OR 0.35), depression (0.53), and self-harm (0.56). With the exception of acute alcohol-related events, there was evidence of a reduction in care-seeking behavior for all conditions studied.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mansfield et al.\u00a0(Feb 19, 2021). Indirect Acute Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical and Mental Health in the UK: A Population-Based Study. The Lancet Digital Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(21)00017-0\/fulltext\">https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(21)00017-0\/fulltext<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of electronic health records from a database that includes health information for &gt;10 million individuals in the UK found a substantial reduction in primary care contacts for both acute physical and mental conditions in the four months following the introduction of movement restrictions to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The largest relative reductions when&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/indirect-acute-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-physical-and-mental-health-in-the-uk-a-population-based-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4475,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}