COVID-19 Pandemic: A Serious Threat for Public Mental Health Globally.
Psychiatr Danub
; 32(2): 245-250, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2100753
ABSTRACT
Deep emotion traumas in societies around the globe are overcome by extreme human catastrophes such as natural disasters, social crises, war conflicts and infectious virus induced pandemic diseases, etc., can lead to enormous stress-related disorders. The current ongoing pandemic known as COVID-19 caused by novel Corona virus first appeared in Wuhan, city of China and then rapidly spread in the whole world. It has affected various frontiers of lives and caused numerous psychiatric problems like nervousness, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), fear and uncertainty, panic attacks, depression, obsessive compulsory disorder, xenophobia and racism, etc. Globally COVID-19 has persuaded public mental health crisis. Furthermore, inadequate resources of public mental health services in several countries are discussed in this review, which will be further straighten by the upcoming increase in demand for mental health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All mental health sciences including Psychiatry can play a very important role in the comfort of COVID-19 infected individuals and their relatives, healthcare providers and society. We need to learn more about psychological and psychiatric features of COVID-19 from the perceptions of public and global mental health in order to cope up the present deteriorating situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Mental Health
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Coronavirus Infections
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Internationality
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Psychiatr Danub
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
PSYD.2020.245
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