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COVID‐19 increases risk of psychiatric diagnoses months later
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.33270
Subject(s) - covid-19 , psychiatric diagnosis , psychiatry , medicine , medical diagnosis , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , virology , pathology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Patients are at significantly increased risk of psychiatric conditions four months following a COVID‐19 diagnosis, according to Oregon State University researchers who added that the degree of increased risk documented in their study is substantially lower compared with previous research on psychiatric disorders among post‐COVID patients. The current study was published in May in World Psychiatry .