The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Registration and Care Provision of Mental Health Problems in General Practice: Registry-Based Study

Jan Vandamme   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Simon Gabriël Beerten   ^{1 *} , MD, MSc ;   Jonas Crèvecoeur   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Steve Van den Bulck   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Bert Aertgeerts   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Nicolas Delvaux   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Gijs Van Pottelbergh   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Mieke Vermandere   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Laura Tops   ¹ , MSc ;   Thomas Neyens   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Bert Vaes   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Academic Center for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

² Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

³ Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

*these authors contributed equally