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Introduction: Psychiatric emergency visits have been associated to several climate variables. However, the influence of relative humidity has been not well stablished. Objectives: The analyse the influence of relative humidity on emergency care visits. Methods: Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. Relative humidity data (%) was obtained from a local climate station. A negative binomial multivariate regression model was performed with relative humidity, weekday and month as covariates. Results: Relative humidity was not associated with number of psychiatric emergency department visits (IRR1.00; 95%CI 0.99-1.00) Conclusions: Relative humidity did not influence emergency help seeking for patients suffering from suicidal phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Suicidal phenomena help seeking depends on a broad array of factors, which include climatic variables. Our aim was to analyse the effect of precipitation with help seeking in patients suffering from suicidal behaviour Objectives: Our aim was to analyse the effect of precipitation with help seeking in patients suffering from suicidal behaviour Methods: Daily urgency visits from suicidal phenomena (including suicide attempt and ideation) were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. Precipitation data (measured as accumulated litres per square meter) was obtained from a local climate station. Spearman correlation was estimated Results: The Spearman correlation coefficient was 0.04(p = 0.48) Conclusions: Precipitation did not influence help seeking for patients affected by suicidal phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Psychiatric emergency visits have with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect psychosocial factors. Its knowledge could proving valuable insight about help seeking behaviour of patiens suffering with mental illness. Objectives: Our aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonality Methods: Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. A poisson multivariate model was performed with day of the week and month as covariates. Predictive margins were estimated Results: Psychiatric emergency visits were less frequent in Saturday and Sunday (5.5 visits per day) than weekdays (7.5 visits per day). Not differences were observed among months. Conclusions: A weekly season pattern was observed with less psychiatric emergency visits during weekends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Psychiatric emergency care visits have been associated to several climate variables. However, the influence of precipitation has been understudied Objectives: To study the association between precipitation and number of emergency care psychiatric visits. Methods: Daily urgency visits were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31th December 2019. Precipitation data (measured as accumulated litres per square meter) was obtained from a local climate station. Spearman correlation was estimated. Results: The Spearman correlation coefficient was -0.02(p = 0.80). Conclusions: Precipitation was not associated to number of emergency visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]