Dalal P K, Roy Deblina, Choudhary Prashant, Kar Sujita Kumar, Tripathi Adarsh
Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2020 Sep;62(Suppl 3):S354-S364. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_372_20. Epub 2020 Sep 28.
The current global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, has posed an unprecedented challenge to our health systems, economy, socio-political organizations, and the infrastructure of most countries and the world. This pandemic has affected physical health as well as mental health adversely. Several recent evidence suggests that health systems across the world have to improve their preparedness in context to infectious pandemics. The research on mental health aspects of COVID-19 and other related pandemics is lacking due to obvious reasons. This narrative review article, along with our personal views, is on various current and future mental health issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic focusing on various challenges and suggested solutions. The aim is also to update mental health strategies in the context of such rapidly spreading contagious illness, which can act as a resource for such a situation, currently and in future. We recommend that there is a need to facilitate mental health research to understand the psychiatric aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, include psychiatrists in the task force, and make available psychotropic and other medications with special attention to the deprived sector of the society.
当前的全球健康危机——新冠疫情，给我们的卫生系统、经济、社会政治组织以及大多数国家乃至全球的基础设施都带来了前所未有的挑战。这场疫情对身体健康和心理健康都产生了不利影响。近期的多项证据表明，全球各地的卫生系统必须提高应对传染性大流行的准备能力。由于显而易见的原因，关于新冠疫情及其他相关大流行心理健康方面的研究尚显不足。这篇叙述性综述文章，结合我们的个人观点，探讨了新冠疫情背景下当前和未来的各种心理健康问题，重点关注各种挑战及建议的解决方案。目的还在于在此类迅速传播的传染性疾病背景下更新心理健康策略，这在当前及未来都可作为应对此类情况的参考资源。我们建议，有必要推动心理健康研究以了解新冠疫情的精神科方面问题，将精神科医生纳入特别工作组，并提供精神类及其他药物，尤其要关注社会中的贫困群体。
