Improved Psychiatric Care and Research (iPSYcare)
iPSYcare is a longitudinal database constructed in 2021 that links the electronic medical records of patients in psychiatric units in the Antwerp region of Belgium. All five psychiatric hospitals (Multiversum, OPZ Geel, UPC Duffel, PZ Bethanië, ZNA) and three general hospitals with a psychiatric unit (GZA, AZ Klina, HHZH Lier) in Antwerp Province are included in the database. In the first phase, the database will only contain information about adult patients who were admitted to a hospital or treated by an outreach team and who gave explicit consent. In the future, the database may be expanded to other regions and additional data on outpatient care may be added.
Study design
Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
14,592 (psychiatric care episodes in the year 2018)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Psychiatric patients of all participating hospitals.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2021
Primary Institutions
University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen, UAntwerp)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Chair Public Mental Health
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Census data
- Healthcare data
Engagement
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