Psychiatry Referrals by Age Cohort from an Irish General Practice, 2021-2023

Siobhan Hinchy's dataset contains records from 195 patients who attended 30-minute extended mental health consultations in a deprived urban Irish practice between March 2021 and March 2023. Quantitative data on demographics, presenting complaints, prescriptions, and referrals were analyzed descriptively. The median patient age was 29.0 years, with anxiety and low mood being the most common complaints.

Use Cases

• Analyze referral patterns to psychiatric services based on patient demographics and presenting complaints.
• Study the prescription and modification of psychotropic medications, such as SSRIs, within general practice.
• Examine the spectrum of emotional concerns managed in extended consultations based on categorized clinical notes.
• Investigate correlations between social deprivation indices and mental health management outcomes.

Strengths

• Contains data from 195 patient records, providing a concrete sample size.
• Includes specific metrics such as median age (29.0 years), gender distribution (63.1% female), and referral rates (26.7% to psychiatry).
• Covers a defined time period from March 2021 to March 2023.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a single, socially deprived urban practice in Ireland, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Siobhan Hinchy via figshare.

Collection Method

Retrospective descriptive secondary analysis of clinical charts.

Time Range

March 2021 to March 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:26:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Deprived urban area in Ireland.