The effects of national mental health plans on mental health services development in Chile: retrospective interrupted time series analyses of national databases between 1990 and 2017

Table 1 Rates (per 100,000 population) and variations in mental health services in the Chilean public health system, 1990–2017

	Psychiatric hospitals		Psychiatric beds in general hospitals	Forensic psychiatric beds	Beds in protected housing facilities	Psychiatric day hospital places	Outpatient mental health care centers
	Long-stay	Short-stay	Psychiatric beds in general hospitals	Forensic psychiatric beds	Beds in protected housing facilities	Psychiatric day hospital places	Outpatient mental health care centers
Baseline	19.0	4.3	1.8	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.1
1990 to 1992 (Pre-1993 NMHP)	18.5 (0.4)	4.2 (0.1)	1.8 (0.0)	0.3 (0.0)	–	–	0.1 (0.0)
1993 to 1999 (Post-1993 NMHP)	14.1 (2.2)	3.6 (0.3)	1.8 (0.1)	0.3 (0.0)	0.9 (0.5)	0.6 (0.1)	0.2 (0.0)
2000 to 2017 (Post-2000 NMHP)	4.0 (2.2)	3.0 (0.2)	2.9 (0.5)	0.9 (0.4)	7.3 (2.7)	3.9 (1.0)	0.6 (0.2)
Endpoint	2.0	3.2	4.0	1.1	10.2	5.0	0.8
Change from baseline (%)	− 89.7	− 26.5	120.7	273.7	2521.7	1189.9	685.5

For pre- and post-national mental health plans (NMHPs) periods, the data presented are mean rates (standard deviations); otherwise, rates are reported. As beds in protected housing facilities and psychiatric day hospital places were introduced after the 1993 NMHP, rates reported for these mental health services for the post-1993 NMHP period included data from 1994 to 1999, and changes from baseline considered data from 1994 to 2017

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