COVID-19 effect on mental health: patients and workforce

Victor Pereira-Sanchez; Frances Adiukwu; Samer El Hayek; Drita Gashi Bytyçi; Jairo M Gonzalez-Diaz; Ganesh Kudva Kundadak; Amine Larnaout; Marwa Nofal; Laura Orsolini; Rodrigo Ramalho; Ramdas Ransing; Mohammadreza Shalbafan; Joan Soler-Vidal; Zulvia Syarif; Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira; Mariana Pinto da Costa

doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30153-X

COVID-19 effect on mental health: patients and workforce

Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 Jun;7(6):e29-e30. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30153-X. Epub 2020 May 20.

Authors

Victor Pereira-Sanchez¹, Frances Adiukwu², Samer El Hayek³, Drita Gashi Bytyçi⁴, Jairo M Gonzalez-Diaz⁵, Ganesh Kudva Kundadak⁶, Amine Larnaout⁷, Marwa Nofal⁸, Laura Orsolini⁹, Rodrigo Ramalho¹⁰, Ramdas Ransing¹¹, Mohammadreza Shalbafan¹², Joan Soler-Vidal¹³, Zulvia Syarif¹⁴, Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira¹⁵, Mariana Pinto da Costa¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: vpereira@alumni.unav.es.
² Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
³ Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁴ Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Community Based Mental Health Center and House for Integration, Prizren, Kosovo.
⁵ Centro Rosarista de Salud Mental School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bogotá Distrito Capital, Colombia.
⁶ Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁸ Helwan Mental Health Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
⁹ Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy; Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research Unit, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
¹⁰ School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.
¹² Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
¹³ Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Benito Menni Complejo Asistencial en Salud Mental, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain; Medicine and Translational Research Doctorate Programme, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Tarakan General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
¹⁵ Department of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁶ Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Queen Mary University of London, Newham Centre for Mental Health, London, UK; Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / psychology*
Health Personnel / psychology*
Humans
Mental Disorders / complications*
Mental Disorders / psychology*
Pandemics
Patients / psychology*
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
Pneumonia, Viral / psychology*