Learning from telepsychiatry during COVID-19 pandemic in India: Boon for public mental health in low- & middle-income countries

Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the mental well-being of the population and posed many challenges in availing mental healthcare. Telepsychiatry has been proven to be an effective route for the delivery of mental healthcare. We share our experience of using the telemedicine...

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Autores principales: Ganesh, Ragul, Verma, Rohit, Deb, Koushik Sinha, Chadda, Rakesh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9552382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859444
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1034_21
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description Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the mental well-being of the population and posed many challenges in availing mental healthcare. Telepsychiatry has been proven to be an effective route for the delivery of mental healthcare. We share our experience of using the telemedicine approach in providing mental health services at a tertiarycare hospital in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, following the break in routine outpatient services during the national lockdown. The telepsychiatry approach helped in ensuring the maintenance of mental healthcare. The utility of telepsychiatry as an option for such future situations and for its use in routine follow up care in indicated cases, have also been discussed.
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spelling pubmed-95523822022-10-12 Learning from telepsychiatry during COVID-19 pandemic in India: Boon for public mental health in low- & middle-income countries Ganesh, Ragul Verma, Rohit Deb, Koushik Sinha Chadda, Rakesh Kumar Indian J Med Res Original Article Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the mental well-being of the population and posed many challenges in availing mental healthcare. Telepsychiatry has been proven to be an effective route for the delivery of mental healthcare. We share our experience of using the telemedicine approach in providing mental health services at a tertiarycare hospital in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, following the break in routine outpatient services during the national lockdown. The telepsychiatry approach helped in ensuring the maintenance of mental healthcare. The utility of telepsychiatry as an option for such future situations and for its use in routine follow up care in indicated cases, have also been discussed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9552382/ /pubmed/35859444 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1034_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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