Su Zhaohui, Bentley Barry L, McDonnell Dean, Cheshmehzangi Ali, Šegalo Sabina, da Veiga Claudimar Pereira, Xiang Yu-Tao
School of Public Health; Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing210009, China.
Bioengineering Research Group, Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2024 Dec 2;18:e295. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2024.165.
Mental health is deteriorating quickly and significantly globally post-COVID. Though there were already over 1 billion people living with mental disorders pre-pandemic, in the first year of COVID-19 alone, the prevalence of anxiety and depression soared by 25% worldwide. In light of the chronic shortages of mental health provider and resources, along with disruptions of available health services caused by the pandemic and COVID-related restrictions, technology is widely believed to hold the key to addressing rising mental health crises. However, hurdles such as fragmented and often suboptimal patient protection measures substantially undermine technology's potential to address the global mental health crises effectively, reliably, and at scale. To shed light on these issues, this paper aims to discuss the post-pandemic challenges and opportunities the global community could leverage to improve society's mental health
新冠疫情后，全球心理健康状况正在迅速且显著地恶化。尽管在疫情大流行之前就已经有超过10亿人患有精神障碍，但仅在新冠疫情的第一年，全球焦虑和抑郁的患病率就飙升了25%。鉴于心理健康服务提供者和资源长期短缺，以及疫情和与新冠相关的限制措施导致现有医疗服务中断，人们普遍认为技术是应对不断升级的心理健康危机的关键。然而，诸如分散且往往不够完善的患者保护措施等障碍，极大地削弱了技术有效、可靠且大规模应对全球心理健康危机的潜力。为了阐明这些问题，本文旨在探讨全球社会可以利用的疫情后挑战和机遇，以改善社会的心理健康状况。
