Changes in daily mental health service use and mortality at the commencement and lifting of COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ policy in 10 UK sites: a regression discontinuity in time design

Objectives To investigate changes in daily mental health (MH) service use and mortality in response to the introduction and the lifting of the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ policy in Spring 2020.Design A regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) analysis of daily service-level activity.Setting and participants...

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Main Authors: Neil Nixon, Matthew Broadbent, David Osborn, Rob Waller, Shanquan Chen, Andrew McIntosh, Dan W Joyce, Jonathan Lewis, Caroline A Jackson, Jane Beenstock, Paul Bibby, Rudolf Cardinal, Karthik Chinnasamy, Simon Douglas, Philip Horner, Sze Chim Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/5/e049721.full