Luke Sheridan Rains

TL;DR: The range of stakeholder perspectives and experiences publicly reported in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in several countries are captured, including reports of swiftly implemented adaptations and innovations, but also of pressing ethical challenges and concerns for the future.

TL;DR: An overview of staff concerns and experiences in the early COVID-19 pandemic suggests directions for further research and service development: how to combine infection control and a therapeutic environment in hospital, and how to achieve effective and targeted tele-health implementation in the community, should be priorities.

TL;DR: An overview of staff concerns and experiences in the early COVID-19 pandemic suggests directions for further research and service development: how to combine infection control and a therapeutic environment in hospital, and how to achieve effective and targeted tele-health implementation in the community, should be priorities.

TL;DR: A higher annual incidence of involuntary hospitalisation is found to be associated with a lower rate of absolute poverty, with higher GDP and health-care spending per capita, a higher proportion of foreign-born individuals in a population, and larger numbers of inpatient beds, but limitations in ecological research must be noted, and the associations were weak.

TL;DR: Previous involuntary hospitalisation and diagnosis of a psychotic disorder were factors associated with the greatest risk of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation, and economic deprivation on an individual level and at the population level was associated with increased risk for involuntaryospitalisation.