Elsevier, Psychosomatics, Volume 61, 1 November 2020
Background: Coronovirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in 2019, and now it spreads in more than 100 countries around the world. On January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. It was classified as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020. With the increase in the number of cases reported by various countries every day, the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted more and more attention around the world. At the same time, this public health emergency has caused a variety of psychological problems, such as panic disorder, anxiety, and depression. In addition, the Wuhan Mental Health Center's analysis of 2144 calls from the psychological hotline from February 4 to February 20, 2020, showed that the general public accounted for 70%, medical workers accounted for 2.2%, patients with mental disorders accounted for 19.5%, and other personnel accounted for 8.3% (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kmff1vnaLsT2d9xQkK5pwg). Conclusion: Therefore, while controlling the pandemic, the government should also pay attention to the mental health of the general public, medical workers, and patients with mental disorders. Community mental health service systems, online mental health services, telemedicine, and other measures for patients with mental disorders may play a vital role during the pandemic.
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Anxiety; Betacoronavirus; COVID-19; China; Communicable Disease Control; Community Mental Health Service; Community Mental Health Services; Coronavirus Disease 2019; Coronavirus Infection; Coronavirus Infections; Delivery Of Health Care; Depression; Government; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Personnel; Health Care System; Health Personnel; Health Practitioner; Human; Humans; Internet; Medical Countermeasure; Medical Personnel; Mental Disease; Mental Disorders; Mental Health; Mental Health Center; Mental Health Service; Mental Health Services; Online Mental Health Service; Online Mental Health Services; Pandemic; Pandemics; Panic; Pneumonia, Viral; Psychology; Public Health; Review; Telemedicine; Virus Pneumonia; World Health Organization; Global