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

From: Psychiatry during the Covid-19 pandemic: a survey on mental health departments 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. 1 Italy’s Geographical areas are: N=North, C=Centre, S=South and Islands
  2. 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. 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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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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