Psychiatry during the Covid-19 pandemic: a survey on mental health departments in Italy

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Community Mental Health Centres and other community facilities operating during the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy

Items	N (%) ofrespondents Yes	Statistically significant differencesaccording to geographical area¹	Differences according to groupsbased upon rates of Covid + cases per 1000 inhabitants on aregional basis²
CMHCs with regular daily opening	61 (85.9)	None	None
CHMCs with regular daily hours of opening	53 (73.2)	None	None
CMCHs Day Hospital active	16 (22.5)	None	None
CMHCs’ Day Centre active	11 (15.5)	None	None
Residential facilities (RFs) active³	71 (100)	None	None

¹ Italy’s Geographical areas are: N=North, C=Centre, S=South and Islands
² group 1 ≥ 2 cases × 1000 inhabitants; group 2 < 2 cases × 1000 inhabitants;high rate regions are those included in group 1, as above; Low rate regions are those included in class 2 as above
³ RFs are small units (20 beds on average) generally managed by private cooperatives or associations, which operate under Regional Health Authority accreditation and the control and supervision of MHDs

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