Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
NOVA National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Front Public Health. 2020 Nov 16;8:553345. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.553345. eCollection 2020.
COVID-19 mitigation measures present unprecedented challenges in mental healthcare delivery, posing high risk to the mental health of at-risk populations, namely patients diagnosed with COVID-19, frontline healthcare providers, and those submitted to quarantine or isolation measures, as well as the general population. Ensuring safe and equitable access to mental healthcare by these groups entails resorting to innovative psychosocial intervention strategies, such as digital mental health. In this perspective piece, we describe the impact of COVID-19 on the Portuguese population's mental health, present an overview on initiatives developed to address the challenges currently faced by the Portuguese mental healthcare system, and discuss how the timely implementation of a comprehensive digital mental health strategy, coupling research, education, implementation, and quality assessment initiatives, might buffer COVID-19's impact on the Portuguese society.
COVID-19 缓解措施对精神卫生保健服务带来了前所未有的挑战,对高危人群的心理健康构成了高风险,这些人群包括被诊断患有 COVID-19 的患者、一线医疗保健提供者以及被隔离或检疫的人群,以及普通人群。确保这些人群安全和平等地获得精神卫生保健需要采用创新的心理社会干预策略,例如数字心理健康。在这篇观点文章中,我们描述了 COVID-19 对葡萄牙人口心理健康的影响,介绍了为应对葡萄牙精神卫生保健系统目前面临的挑战而制定的举措,并讨论了及时实施全面的数字心理健康战略,结合研究、教育、实施和质量评估举措,如何缓冲 COVID-19 对葡萄牙社会的影响。