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Mental Health Care Resource Utilization of Victims of Interpersonal Violence in the COVID Era
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Mental Health Care Resource Utilization of Victims of Interpersonal Violence in the COVID Era

Asanthi Ratnasekera, Madison Harris, Richard Caplan, John Getchell, James T. Laughery, Leonard Mason, Kevin M. Bradley, David Chen and Claudine Jurkovitz
The Journal of surgical research, v 301, pp 512-519
22 Jul 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2024.06.014
PMID: 39042980
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Abstract

Care utilization COVID Mental health Victims of violence
<p>Introduction: Higher incidences of interpersonal violence were reported throughout the country during the coronavirus (COVID) time period. We aimed to compare health-care encounters and resource utilization related to interpersonal violence with mental health (MH) disorders before and during the pandemic within a year of the index visit for interpersonal violence. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the Delaware Healthcare Claims data of all patients aged >= 16 y who suffered interpersonal violence was performed. Patients were followed up for 1 y pre and post their index visit of interpersonal violence episode during the pre-COVID (March 2018 through December 2018) and the COVID (March 2020 through December 2020) period. Census tract information was used to assess social determinants of health. Results: There were 431 patients in the COVID period and 527 patients in the pre-COVID period with index violence claim encounters. African American patients were more likely to have a violence encounter during COVID (60.3% versus 47.2%, P < 0.001). Patients in the COVID period were more likely to live in a census tract with public assistance households (median 3.3% versus 2.2%, P = 0.005) and higher unemployment (7.5% versus 7.1%, P = 0.01). In the following year of index violence claim, the mean numbers of MH claim- days for COVID and pre-COVID patients were 19.5 (53.3) and 26.2 (66.2), (P = 0.51). The COVID group had fewer MH claim-days mostly in the second half of the year after the index encounter with an incidence rate ratio of 0.61, 95% CI (0.45-0.83). Conclusions: Racial and socioeconomic disparities were amplified and MH resource utilization was lower during COVID. Further injury prevention efforts should be focused on MH in future pandemics or disasters. Published by Elsevier Inc.</p>

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