Can COVID-19 related mental health issues be measured?

Ramdas Ransing; Rodrigo Ramalho; Laura Orsolini; Frances Adiukwu; Jairo M Gonzalez-Diaz; Amine Larnaout; Mariana Pinto da Costa; Paolo Grandinetti; Drita Gashi Bytyçi; Mohammadreza Shalbafan; Ishwar Patil; Marwa Nofal; Victor Pereira-Sanchez; Ozge Kilic

doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.049

Can COVID-19 related mental health issues be measured?

Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Aug:88:32-34. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.049. Epub 2020 May 26.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical college, Ratnagiri-415606, Maharashtra, India. Electronic address: ramdas_ransing123@yahoo.co.in.
² School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: r.ramalho@auckland.ac.nz.
³ Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, School of Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona 60126, Italy; Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research Unit, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Herts AL109AB, UK. Electronic address: laura.orsolini01@gmail.com.
⁴ Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, East West Road, Alakahia, PMB 6173, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Electronic address: Francesadiukwu@gmail.com.
⁵ CERSAME School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario -Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Calle 12C # 25, Bogota, Colombia. Electronic address: jairom.gonzalez@urosario.edu.co.
⁶ Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University. Tunis 1068, Tunisia. Electronic address: Larnaout.amin@gmail.com.
⁷ Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Queen Mary University of London, London E138SP, UK; Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: mariana.pintodacosta@gmail.com.
⁸ Addictions Service, Department of Territorial Services, ASL 4 Teramo, Italy. Electronic address: grandinetti.paolo@gmail.com.
⁹ Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Community Based Mental Health Center and House for Integration, Prizren 20000, Kosovo. Electronic address: drita.gashi1@gmail.com.
¹⁰ Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1449614535, Iran. Electronic address: shalbafan.mr@iums.ac.ir.
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical college, Ratnagiri-415606, Maharashtra, India. Electronic address: ipp8507@gmail.com.
¹² Helwan Mental Health Hospital, Extension of Mansour St., behind Kbretaj Helwan Club, Helwan, 25562198 Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: Marwa.nofal55@gmail.com.
¹³ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: vpereira@alumni.unav.es.
¹⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Koç University Hospital, Davutpasa Cad. No: 4, 34010, Topkapi, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: drozgekilic@gmail.com.

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Publication types

Letter
Review

MeSH terms

Anxiety / diagnosis*
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Depression / diagnosis*
Humans
Mental Health*
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
SARS-CoV-2
Stress, Psychological / diagnosis*