Dyna K. Alhajri

COVID-19 and psychiatric inpatient admissions at a Saudi tertiary hospital, 2017-2024: an interrupted time-series study

Psychiatric inpatient admissions decreased in many countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most studies used a year or less of pre-pandemic data and compared the two periods directly, which cannot separate a pandemic effect from the increase that predated it, and evidence from the Middle East is limited. This study...