Effect of COVID-19 on Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers
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Effect of COVID-19 on Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers Alifiya Aamir . Sana Awan . Renato de Filippis Irfan Ullah
. Mufaddal Najmuddin Diwan .
Received: 4 August 2020 / Accepted: 3 October 2020 Ó Springer Nature India Private Limited 2020
I. Ullah Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan e-mail: [email protected]
COVID-19 pandemic has remarkably raised mental health concerns, one of the high risks and possibly neglected groups includes individuals undergoing mental health rehabilitation, the impact on which can be significant as compared to the rest of the population. In order to ensure that individuals on the road to recovery are not alone and forgotten during the times of coronavirus crisis they should be provided with adequate resources, such as online meetings and group therapy sessions, assessment, treatment and support by telephone and video consultation and getting the medications they need to recover. This article highlights how the coronavirus pandemic, that has hit hard the health care and all categories of patients affected by mental disorders, is likely to be particularly dramatic for mental health rehabilitation centers. Indeed, the COVID-19 crisis has severely tested the health systems worldwide, reducing sometimes the quality and quantity of care offered to psychiatric patients both hospitalized and not in rehabilitation centers. The main goal of this paper is to raise awareness of the importance, often underestimated, of mental health rehabilitation centers, on which one should invest for the both future of psychological and psychiatric rehabilitation and the current crisis as well.
I. Ullah Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Keywords COVID-19 Coronavirus Mental health Rehabilitation Rehabilitation centers
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is an unprecedented event in modern history worldwide. To facilitate speedy and smooth recovery during this time period, an added responsibility is placed upon rehabilitation center counselors, staff and management. In this paper we expose the role that psychiatric rehabilitation plays during the COVID-19 crisis. Since A. Aamir S. Awan M. N. Diwan Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan e-mail: [email protected] S. Awan e-mail: [email protected] M. N. Diwan e-mail: [email protected] R. de Filippis (&) Department of Health Sciences, Psychiatric Unit, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy e-mail: [email protected]
I. Ullah Naseer Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan
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J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began as a few cases of a flu like disease in Wuhan, China, is now a pandemic that has affected millions of people globally and has forced upon unprecedented changes in every field of life [1]. During these times of crisis, inevitably peopl
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