Open Access<p>Telepsychiatry in the Arab World: A Viewpoint Before and During COVID-19</p>
Author(s) -
Samer El Hayek,
Marwa Nofal,
Doaa Abdelrahman,
Ali Adra,
Mansour Al Harthi,
Siham Al Shamli,
Nawaf AlNuaimi,
Lynda Bensid,
Mohamad Ali Cheaito,
Alkhansa Mahdi Emberish,
Amine Larnaout,
Ahmed Radwan,
Mohammad Slaih,
Firas Kobeissy,
Maya Bizri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s277224
Subject(s) - telepsychiatry , telemedicine , mental health , medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , health care , psychiatry , economic growth , disease , pathology , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Telepsychiatry, a subset of telemedicine, has been increasingly studied to meet the growing demands for psychiatric care. The utility of telepsychiatry is relevant now more than ever as the world endures the COVID-19 global pandemic. This paper describes the prior state and the changes that the COVID-19 outbreak brought to telepsychiatry in a selected group of Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.