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Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak

Author(s) -

Sonia Mukhtar

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

international journal of social psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.869

H-Index - 62

eISSN - 1741-2854

pISSN - 0020-7640

DOI - 10.1177/0020764020925835

Subject(s) - mental health , psychological intervention , pandemic , misinformation , public health , psychology , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , political science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , covid-19 , pathology , law

The current ongoing pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) has globally affected 213 countries and territories with more than 2.5 million confirmed cases and thousands of casualties. The unpredictable and uncertain COVID-19 outbreak has the potential of adversely affecting the psychological health on individual and community level. Currently all efforts are focused on the understanding of epidemiology, clinical features, mode of transmission, counteract the spread of the virus, and challenges of global health, while crucially significant mental health has been overlooked in this endeavor.

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