Citation

Velamoor VR, Cernovsky ZZ, Voruganti LP. Psychol. Rep. 1999; 85(2): 403-404.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10611769

Abstract

We compared the number of psychiatric admissions from the emergency room during the Christmas season, defined as the rate for the month of December, with those in other months. The psychiatric emergency rates were recorded for each month over six consecutive years, 1991 to 1997. The average number of emergency patients in none of the 12 months differed significantly from any of the remaining months (ANOVA, p > .05). Our data and those of other authors do not support the clinical lore that Christmas season is associated with higher rate of psychiatric emergencies.

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