Comparative Study of Ethanol Intoxications in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic Reported to the Year of 2019

Authors

  • Mihai Terpan PhD student, "Dunarea de Jos " University, Galați, Romania
  • Anamaria Ciubara Professor PhD, Head of Psychiatry Department, "Dunărea de Jos" University, Galați, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.2/202

Keywords:

alcohol, Covid-19, pandemic, psychiatry, intoxication

Abstract

Excessive alcohol consumption that causes disorders of social conduct, causes a rejection reaction with the intervention of the authorities. The paper compares trends related to people with the diagnosis of acute intoxication (F10.0) admitted to the "Elisabeta Doamna” Psychiatry Hospital in Galati, from the 1st of January to the 31th of December 2020 with the period from the 1st of January to the 31th of December 2019. In the retrospective study we selected people discharged with acute intoxication, code (F10.0), and harmful use (F10.1), excluding all patients with other psychiatric diagnoses from the database of the "Elisabeta Doamna" Psychiatry Hospital from 2020 to 2019. ICD-10 (Classification of mental and behavioral disorders) was used for diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The data was processed statistically using: Microsoft Office-Excel, The Jamovi Project (2021). jamovi (Version 1.6) [Computer Software]. In 2020 there were 39.58% fewer discharges by a total of (7973 cases) compared to (13197 cases) in 2019. In 2020, acute intoxication (F10.0) accounted for 7.41% of total discharges compared to a percentage of (8.27%) in 2019, showing a decline by a percentage of 45.92%. Comparing the years 2020 with 2019 by gender (of the total number of discharges with acute intoxication (F10.0), there is an increase in the percentage of discharges by 1.16% (from 86.98% in 2019 to 88.14% in 2020), while in the female gender, the percentage trend has decreased by a percentage of 1.16% (from 13.02% in 2019 to 11.86% in 2020).

Author Biographies

Mihai Terpan, PhD student, "Dunarea de Jos " University, Galați, Romania

PhD student, "Dunarea de Jos " University, Galați, Romania

Anamaria Ciubara, Professor PhD, Head of Psychiatry Department, "Dunărea de Jos" University, Galați, Romania

Professor PhD, Head of Psychiatry Department, "Dunărea de Jos" University, Galați, Romania

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Published

2021-07-19

How to Cite

Terpan, M. ., & Ciubara, A. . (2021). Comparative Study of Ethanol Intoxications in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic Reported to the Year of 2019. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 12(2), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.2/202

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