Suara.com – A study by King’s College London, England, showed that the number of death in patients mental disorders and intellectual disabilities have increased over the past pandemic Covid-19.
Education this is published in order to welcome World Mental Health Day which falls today, Sunday (10/10/2021) in the journal The Lancet Regional Health-Eropa.
The theme for this year is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World‘ or ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’.
Prior to the pandemic, the death rate among people with severe mental disorders was already higher than in the general population.
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There is a pandemic, especially in the first wave Covid-19 namely March to June 2020, increasing.
Medical Xpress reported results of this study include:
- Mortality in people with learning disabilities is 9 times higher than in the general population.
- Cases of death in people with eating disorders are almost five times higher.
- In patients personality disorder and dementia, mortality is four times higher than the general population.
- The death rate for people with schizophrenia is three times higher than the general population.
“The results from our study illustrate that vulnerability in people with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities worsens during the Covid-19 pandemic. The higher mortality rate compared to the general population is due to the Covid-19 infection itself, as well as deaths from other causes,” said study lead author Jayati Das. – Munshi.
The findings are the result of an analysis of 167,122 patient mortality data in South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust between 2019 and 2020.
Deaths among people with mental health problems and intellectual disabilities fell from July 2020 to September 2020 as Covid-19 cases fell and lockdowns eased. However, the number remains double that of the general population, which is similar to pre-pandemic figures.
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