Özet:

Although it is known that COVID-19 has a serious impact on mental health, there are few studies on the acute period complications in hospitalized patients. In this study, it has been aimed to evaluate the reason for asking for consultation, prevalence of psychiatric disease and recommended psychiatric interventions, in COVID-19 infected patients who were consulted to consultation liaison psychiatry. This study has been conducted by retrospectively examining the psychiatric consultation reports of 138 patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 in a university hospital in Turkey between March 2020 and October 2021. Patients’ data were obtained from electronic medical records. According to the results of the analysis, the reasons for requesting a consultation were insomnia (26.22%), anxiety/fear of death (20.76%), agitation (17.48%), and hallucinations/fluctuation in consciousness (11.47%), respectively. The most common psychiatric diagnoses were delirium and sleep disorders (22.5%), these were followed respectively by adjustment disorder (11.6%), anxiety (10.9%) and depression (3.6%). Medical treatment was recommended for 85.5% of the patients, and haloperidol was the most frequently recommended agent. 44.1% of the patients treated in the intensive care unit were diagnosed with delirium and their age was higher. Advanced age caused an increase in delirium and death rates. These findings indicate that psychiatric morbidities and delirium are common among COVID-19 patients, and the need for consultation-liaison services may increase during the pandemic.

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