Current Trend of Epidemiology of Psychiatric Emergency and the Stress of Duty Psychiatric Resident
Current Trend of Epidemiology of Psychiatric Emergency and the Stress of Duty Psychiatric Resident
Agitation, paranoia, and suicide risk of the psychiatric patients made them difficult to be
 managed when they visited medical emergency services. The prolonged waiting time at medical
 emergency services and the stigmatization of psychiatric medicine also made the psychiatric
 emergency services full of challenges. However, in recent years, the random killings,
 celebrity suicide and other major social events attracted much attention to the emergency
 psychiatry.

 Following the establishment of the National Health Insurance, the law of mandatory admission,
 and the prevalence change of all psychiatric diseases, we are now dealing with totally
 different types of emergent psychiatric conditions, i.e., depression and suicide. However,
 the real epidemiological data need to be updated. Psychiatric emergency is one of the
 entrances of the psychiatric network. A comprehensive review of the psychiatric emergency
 would be needed for the base of further research.

 This study is aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric diagnosis of patients who
 came to Emergency Department of National Taiwan University Hospital and needed a psychiatric
 consultation. The epidemiological data will be compared to those collected 30 years ago in
 the same hospital to examine the 30-year trend. On the other hand, the visiting time and the
 staying time will be analyzed. The stress of on-duty and the contributing factors will be
 assessed by a 2-hour in-depth interview with psychiatric residents.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Psychiatric resident in NTUH

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Major psychiatric illness