COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media

This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely ch...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Pu, Xia, Guohua, Pang, Peng, Wu, Bo, Jiang, Wei, Li, Yong-Tong, Wang, Mei, Ling, Qi, Chang, Xiaoying, Wang, Jinghan, Dai, Xiaocheng, Lin, Xiaojin, Bi, Xiaoting
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Fresh Focus
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32378126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5
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author Cheng, Pu
Xia, Guohua
Pang, Peng
Wu, Bo
Jiang, Wei
Li, Yong-Tong
Wang, Mei
Ling, Qi
Chang, Xiaoying
Wang, Jinghan
Dai, Xiaocheng
Lin, Xiaojin
Bi, Xiaoting
author_facet Cheng, Pu
Xia, Guohua
Pang, Peng
Wu, Bo
Jiang, Wei
Li, Yong-Tong
Wang, Mei
Ling, Qi
Chang, Xiaoying
Wang, Jinghan
Dai, Xiaocheng
Lin, Xiaojin
Bi, Xiaoting
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description This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely challenged the existing health care systems and caused severe mental distress to frontline healthcare workers. The authors describe the infrastructure of the team and a novel model of peer support and crisis intervention that utilized a popular social media application on smartphone. Such a model for intervention that can be used elsewhere in the face of current global pandemic, or future disaster response.
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spelling pubmed-72024622020-05-07 COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media Cheng, Pu Xia, Guohua Pang, Peng Wu, Bo Jiang, Wei Li, Yong-Tong Wang, Mei Ling, Qi Chang, Xiaoying Wang, Jinghan Dai, Xiaocheng Lin, Xiaojin Bi, Xiaoting Community Ment Health J Fresh Focus This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely challenged the existing health care systems and caused severe mental distress to frontline healthcare workers. The authors describe the infrastructure of the team and a novel model of peer support and crisis intervention that utilized a popular social media application on smartphone. Such a model for intervention that can be used elsewhere in the face of current global pandemic, or future disaster response. Springer US 2020-05-06 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7202462/ /pubmed/32378126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Wang, Jinghan
Dai, Xiaocheng
Lin, Xiaojin
Bi, Xiaoting
COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32378126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5
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