Mental Health Services Utilization by the Population That Suffered Water Supply Interruption Following Mariana Dam Failure (Brazil)

Marcelo F. Dell'Aringa; Gabriel E. Correa-Oliveira; Francesco Della Corte; Luca Ragazzoni; Elaine S. Miranda; Ives Hubloue; Virginia Murray; Francesco Barone-Adesi

doi:10.1017/dmp.2022.92

Mental Health Services Utilization by the Population That Suffered Water Supply Interruption Following Mariana Dam Failure (Brazil)

Marcelo F. Dell'Aringa, Gabriel E. Correa-Oliveira, Francesco Della Corte, Luca Ragazzoni, Elaine S. Miranda, Ives Hubloue, Virginia Murray, Francesco Barone-Adesi

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Objective: Disasters may have major impacts to mental health and to the utilization of mental health services (MHS). Moreover, these effects may be worsened by the preclusion of access to basic services following the event. The aim of this study is to evaluate the utilization of public MHS by the population that suffered water supply interruption following the Mariana Dam Failure in Brazil, 2015.

Methods: We conducted an Interrupted Time Series analyzing secondary health data from the municipalities that faced water supply interruption, comparing it to data from the other municipalities of Minas Gerais state.

Results: We found a higher immediate (RR: 1.78; 95% CI: 1.25-2.53) and gradual (RR: 1.05; 95% CI: 1.03-1.06) change in the rate of mental health visits (MHV) in the affected population following the event, whereas there was an immediate fall (RR: 0.41; 95% CI: 0.29-0.59) followed by a higher gradual increase (RR: 1.04; 95% CI: 1.02-1.06) in the rate of hospital admissions (HA) in the affected population.

Conclusion: The results suggest that there was an increase in the utilization of public MHS by the population that suffered water supply interruption following the disaster.

Original language	English
Article number	e182
Journal	Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Volume	17
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.92
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2022

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Funding Information: This manuscript is part of the joint PhD program in Global Health, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Medicine of the University of Eastern Piedmont and The Free University of Brussels pursued by MFD with a scholarship.
MFD is an associate editor of this journal but did not participate of the peer review process.

Open Access: This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2022.Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

Citation: Dell’Aringa MF, Correa-Oliveira GE, Della Corte F, et al. Mental health services utilization by the population that suffered water supply interruption
following Mariana dam failure (Brazil). Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 17(e182), 1–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.92.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.92.

Keywords

community mental health services
disasters
epidemiologic methods
health services
public health

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Dell'Aringa, M. F., Correa-Oliveira, G. E., Della Corte, F., Ragazzoni, L., Miranda, E. S., Hubloue, I., Murray, V., & Barone-Adesi, F. (2022). Mental Health Services Utilization by the Population That Suffered Water Supply Interruption Following Mariana Dam Failure (Brazil). Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 17(6), Article e182. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.92

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