{"id":7457,"date":"2020-06-09T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:07:23","slug":"the-impact-of-covid-19-on-suicidal-ideation-and-alcohol-presentations-to-emergency-departments-in-a-large-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-suicidal-ideation-and-alcohol-presentations-to-emergency-departments-in-a-large-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of COVID-19 on Suicidal Ideation and Alcohol Presentations to Emergency Departments in a Large Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A retrospective multicenter study in 20 emergency departments in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">M<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">idwest<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">uicidal ideation\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as a percentage of behavioral health visits\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decreased from 33% to 18%, but the actual suicide rate during the study period could not be ascertained. Alcohol encounters\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as a percentage of behavioral health visits\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increased from 28% to 33%.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Smalley et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a018, 2020). The Impact of COVID-19 on Suicidal Ideation and Alcohol Presentations to Emergency Departments in a Large Healthcare System. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajem.2020.05.093\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajem.2020.05.093<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective multicenter study in 20 emergency departments in the\u00a0Midwest\u00a0found that suicidal ideation\u00a0as a percentage of behavioral health visits\u00a0decreased from 33% to 18%, but the actual suicide rate during the study period could not be ascertained. Alcohol encounters\u00a0as a percentage of behavioral health visits\u00a0increased from 28% to 33%.\u00a0 Smalley et al. (May\u00a018, 2020). The Impact&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-suicidal-ideation-and-alcohol-presentations-to-emergency-departments-in-a-large-healthcare-system\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/7458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}