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Comment
. 2023 Jan;49(1):112-114.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06941-5. Epub 2022 Nov 29.

Association between COVID-19 pandemic and mental disorders in spouses of intensive care unit patients

Hiroyuki Ohbe  1 , Tadahiro Goto  2   3 , Akira Okada  4 , Hideo Yasunaga  2
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Association between COVID-19 pandemic and mental disorders in spouses of intensive care unit patients

Hiroyuki Ohbe et al. Intensive Care Med. 2023 Jan.
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Fig. 1
Change in the incidence of mental disorders before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in spouses of ICU patients and matched controls. Points represent the mean percentage of incidence of mental disorders within 90 days of the date of ICU admission for the cases in each month. Solid and dashed lines represent the predicted outcomes using controlled interrupted time-series analysis. April 2019 through March 2020 was the period before the COVID-19 pandemic, and April 2020 through February 2021 was the period during the COVID-19 pandemic. The red points and red solid lines represent the spouses of the ICU patient group and the blue points and blue dashed lines represent the matched control group. ICU intensive care unit; COVID-19 coronavirus disease 2019
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