The study was conducted on patients registered to the Ministry of Health Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kırdar City Hospital Adatepe Community Mental Health Center and was followed up regularly. It was carried out on 108 individuals who met the diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the DSM-V (American Psychiatric Association 2013) and met the inclusion criteria. Individuals who were respectively classified as hospitalized group (HG) during the Covid-19 pandemic period (n=39), non-hospitalized with emergency care group (NHECG) without hospitalization (n=37), and non-hospitalized with non-emergency care group (NHNECG) (n=32). Individuals who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia for at least two years, were not in the active phase of the disease, did not have organic mental disorders, did not have any other psychiatric diseases were included in the study. In the study, the Socio-Demographic Questionnaire, the Calgary Depression Scale in Schizophrenia (CDSS), the Buss-perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ), and the Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) were used.
This study aimed to examine the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on schizophrenia patients registered to the Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in terms of depression, suicide risk, and tendency to violence.