Effect of increasing temperature on daily hospital admissions for schizophrenia in Hefei, China: a time-series analysis

Short-term effect of apparent temperature on daily emergency visits for mental and behavioral disorders in Beijing, China: A time-series study

“…For example, a study found the effects of high AT on males and females were similar but the effect of low AT on female was not significant ( Min et al, 2019 ). Wang et al (2018) found a significant difference in admission rates for schizophrenia between males and females when the temperature increased, with admissions for males greater than those for females. Most studies draw a conclusion that there was effect difference of high temperature on MDs between genders and variations existed among regions but few studied low temperature ( Almendra et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2014 ; Page et al, 2007 ; Hansen et al, 2008 ).…”

“… Basu et al (2018) concluded the similar finding that a 5.6 °C increase in same-day AT was associated with 4.8% (95% CI: 3.6%–6.0%) increases in the risk of emergency room visits for MDs. Several studies ( Peng et al, 2017 ; Almendra et al, 2019 ; Min et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2018 ; Wang et al, 2014 ) found the positive correlation between high temperature and MDs but didn't observe the same relationship for low temperature. In our study, the single day effect of low AT emerged from the 3rd day to the 6th day and the maximum increased risk could be 4.3% on the 4th day after exposure.…”

“…An increased risk of low AT on MDs emergency visits was found in all age groups and the effects of high AT in patients aged 18–65 years and 66–79 years were significant. While other studies found the stronger effect of high AT in the patients with MDs aged <45 years ( Min et al, 2019 ), or aged >44 years ( Peng et al, 2017 ), or aged 21–60 years ( Wang et al, 2018 ), or aged >65 years ( Liu et al, 2018 ), which was difficult to be compared with. In addition, Almendra et al (2019) found no significant differences in effect of temperature between different age groups.…”

“…AT was also adopted to reflect human thermal to explore the effect of temperature on MDs in Yancheng, China ( Min et al, 2019 ). Though some studies focused on the relationship between temperature and MDs, few researchers used AT as the study variable to quantify its effect on emergency visits of MDs ( Peng et al, 2017 ; Almendra et al, 2019 ; Yi et al, 2019a ; Min et al, 2019 ; Chan et al, 2018 ; Wang et al, 2018 ; Yi et al, 2019b ). What's more, most of the study areas in the above studies were located at high latitudes.…”

The Effects of Temperature on Dynamics of Psychiatric Outpatients

“…Recent studies employing time-series analyses highlight the potential predictive effects of ambient temperature on mental health conditions (1). For instance, extreme temperatures increase the hospital admission of patients with mental disorders (1,10), schizophrenia (11) and emergency mental disorders (12). However, few studies have systemically examined the association between temperature and psychiatric hospital outpatient visits over a prolonged period.…”