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Representative samples are needed to inform service planning and research.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S205647242000085X_sec_a2\" sec-type=\"other\">\n\t    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>To describe the psychiatric morbidity associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (confirmed by real-time polymerase chain reaction) in referrals to a consultation-liaison psychiatry service in Qatar.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S205647242000085X_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"methods\">\n\t    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>Retrospective review of 50 consecutive referrals.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S205647242000085X_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"results\">\n\t    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>Most patients were male. Median age was 39.5 years. Thirty-one patients were symptomatic (upper respiratory tract symptoms or pneumonia) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 19 were asymptomatic (no characteristic physical symptoms of COVID-19 infection). Seventeen patients (34%) had a past psychiatric history including eight with bipolar I disorder or psychosis, all of whom relapsed. Thirty patients (60%) had physical comorbidity. The principal psychiatric diagnoses made by the consultation-liaison team were delirium (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 13), psychosis (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 9), acute stress reaction (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8), anxiety disorder (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8), depression (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8) and mania (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 8). Delirium was confined to the COVID-19 symptomatic group (the exception being one asymptomatic patient with concurrent physical illness). The other psychiatric diagnoses spanned the symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with COVID. One patient with COVID-19 pneumonia experienced an ischaemic stroke. Approximately half the patients with mania and psychosis had no past psychiatric history. Three patients self-harmed. The commonest psychiatric symptoms were sleep disturbance (70%), anxiety (64%), agitation (50%), depressed mood (42%) and irritability (36%).<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S205647242000085X_sec_a5\" sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n\t    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>A wide range of psychiatric morbidity is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and is seen in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. 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