Effects of COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health outcomes in a cohort of early psychosis patients

To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical outcomes, we used data from Electronic Health Records from 128 patients receiving care at a First Episode Psychosis clinic.Rates of admission or emergency room (ER) visits from January 2020 to July 2020 were analysed using difference-in-difference regression. We used the same weeks in 2019 to control for seasonality.We found 17 hospitalizations or ER visits between 1 January 2020 and 13...