COVID-19 and mental health: A review and the role of telehealth and virtual reality.
| Autor: | Sainz-Fuertes R; Psious, Barcelona, Spain., Gelabert Mir JM; Psious, Barcelona, Spain., Valderas JM; University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK., Bullock K; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, USA., Giersch A; University of Strasbourg, INSERM, University Hospital of Strasbourg, France., Vogeley K; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne, Germany., García AT; University Hospital Vall Hebron, Barcelona, Spain., Huguet MA; Psychosocial Intervention Team La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain., Russell T; Mindfulness Centre of Excellence, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK., Hollingdale J; The Michael Rutter Centre, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK., Lopez-Moriñigo JD; University Hospital 'Fundación Jiménez Díaz', Madrid, Spain., Delgado IN; Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPCBarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain., Selsick H; Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, London, UK., Gurr H; The Doctors Gurr clinic, New York, USA., Fitzpatrick T; IKONA Health, USA., Maddox T; IKONA Health, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Digital medicine [Digit Med] 2020 Jul-Dec; Vol. 6 (2), pp. 53-66. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 19. |
| DOI: | 10.4103/digm.digm_22_20 |
| Abstrakt: | On March 12, 2020, with more than 20,000 confirmed cases and almost 1000 deaths in the European Region, the World Health Organization classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. As of August 15, 2020, there are 21.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 766,000 deaths from the virus, worldwide. Most governments have imposed quarantine measures of varied degrees of strictness on their populations in attempts to stall the spread of the infection in their communities. However, the isolation may have inflicted long-term psychological injury to the general population and, in particular, to at-risk groups such as the elderly, the mentally ill, children, and frontline healthcare staff. In this article, we offer the most up-to-date review of the effects of COVID-19 confinement on all the disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. We make data-driven predictions of the impact of COVID-19 confinement on mental health outcomes and discuss the potential role of telemedicine and virtual reality in mental health screening, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring, thus improving the above outcomes in such a difficult time. Competing Interests: Psious and IKONA are privately owned digital health companies. (Copyright: © 2020 DIGITAL MEDICINE.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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