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COVID-19, mental health and ethnic minorities
(2020-07)
There is little formal guidance
for the busy clinician in balancing
different risks for individual mental health
patients and treating appropriately. To fill this gap, we propose three core
actions that may help:
1. ...
How pharmacist prescribers can help meet the mental health consequences of COVID-19
(2020-11)
We suggest that Mental Health Trusts
should urgently develop prescribing roles
for specialist mental health pharmacists,
which are integrated within mental health
teams. In these roles, prescribing pharmacists can ...
Changes in daily mental health service use and mortality at the commencement and lifting of COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in 10 UK sites: a regression discontinuity in time design
(2021-05)
Objectives: To investigate changes in daily mental health (MH) service use and mortality in response to the introduction and the lifting of the COVID-19 'lockdown' policy in Spring 2020.
Design: A regression discontinuity ...
COVID-19 vaccines, hesitancy and mental health
(2021-04)
‘None of us will be safe until everyone is
safe. Global access to coronavirus vaccines,
tests and treatments for everyone who
needs them, anywhere, is the only way
out’. This statement by Dr Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ...
COVID-19 and substance use disorders: a review of international guidelines for frontline healthcare workers of addiction services
(2022-03)
People with substance use disorders may be at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 infection and developing medical complications. Several institutional and governmental health agencies across the world developed ad hoc ...
Covid-19 and mental health: a transformational opportunity to apply an evidence-based approach to clinical practice and research
(2020-04)
The Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab (https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/our-work/oxppl/, @OxfordPPL) collected from senior clinicians in the local Mental Health Trust a list of specific and focused questions about mental ...
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Global Delivery of Mental Health Services and Telemental Health: Systematic Review
(2022-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic required mental health services around the world to adapt quickly to the new restrictions and regulations put in place to reduce the risk of transmission. As face-to-face contact became difficult, ...
Perinatal mental health and COVID-19: Navigating a way forward
(2022-11)
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have increased pre-existing inequalities and risk factors for mental disorders in general, but perinatal mental disorders are of particular concern. They are already underdiagnosed ...
Teaching telepsychiatry skills: building on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance mental health care in the future
(2022-03)
COVID-19 has accelerated the use of telehealth and technology in mental health care, creating new avenues to increase both access to and quality of care. As video visits, synchronous telehealth, become more routine the ...