• Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2020

    Anxiety and alcohol in the working-age population are driving a rise in mental health-related emergency department presentations: 15 year trends in emergency department presentations in Western Australia.

    • Matthew Yap, Matthew Tuson, David Whyatt, and Alistair Vickery.
    • Division of General Practice, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
    • Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Feb 1; 32 (1): 80-87.

    ObjectiveTo evaluate age, gender and disease-specific trends in ED for mental health presentations over 15 years.MethodsThe study population consisted of residents of metropolitan Perth, Western Australia, presenting to Perth ED between 1 July 2002 and 30 June 2017. Population rates of mental health-related ED presentations per year were calculated.ResultsRates of mental health ED presentations are significantly increasing in the working-age population for those with stress and anxiety-related diagnoses, particularly in younger females, and also for alcohol-related presentations for those aged 10-49 years, particularly in males.ConclusionThe present study demonstrates that increased rates of mental health-related ED presentations are driven by increased rates of presentation for stress and anxiety-related and alcohol-related presentations in both genders across the working-age population.© 2019 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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