Role of electronic media in mitigating the psychological impacts of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

The current research initiative focuses on the role of Pakistani media in eliminating panic and depression among health practitioners and the general public due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In Pakistan, electronic media is the most common source of information due to the higher r...

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Autores principales: Bilal, Latif, Faiza, Bashir, Muhammad Farhan, Komal, Bushra, Tan, Duojiao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32388417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113041
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description The current research initiative focuses on the role of Pakistani media in eliminating panic and depression among health practitioners and the general public due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In Pakistan, electronic media is the most common source of information due to the higher rural population and the lower literacy rate and media's handling of COVID-19 coverage so far creates panic and depression. We suggest that special televised transmissions featuring psychologists and physiatrists should be aired to reduce the panic. Media also mitigates the stress of frontline medical staff by paying special attributes to them.
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spelling pubmed-71945772020-05-02 Role of electronic media in mitigating the psychological impacts of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Bilal Latif, Faiza Bashir, Muhammad Farhan Komal, Bushra Tan, Duojiao Psychiatry Res Letter to the Editor The current research initiative focuses on the role of Pakistani media in eliminating panic and depression among health practitioners and the general public due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In Pakistan, electronic media is the most common source of information due to the higher rural population and the lower literacy rate and media's handling of COVID-19 coverage so far creates panic and depression. We suggest that special televised transmissions featuring psychologists and physiatrists should be aired to reduce the panic. Media also mitigates the stress of frontline medical staff by paying special attributes to them. Elsevier B.V. 2020-07 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7194577/ /pubmed/32388417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113041 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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