Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

. 2020 Oct:53:102234.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Ramalho¹, Frances Adiukwu², Drita Gashi Bytyçi³, Samer El Hayek⁴, Jairo M Gonzalez-Diaz⁵, Amine Larnaout⁶, Paolo Grandinetti⁷, Ganesh Kudva Kundadak⁸, Marwa Nofal⁹, Victor Pereira-Sanchez¹⁰, Mariana Pinto da Costa¹¹, Ramdas Ransing¹², Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira¹³, Mohammadreza Shalbafan¹⁴, Joan Soler-Vidal¹⁵, Zulvia Syarif¹⁶, Laura Orsolini¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
³ Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Community Based Mental Health Center and House for Integration, Prizren, Kosovo.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁵ CERSAME School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario - Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bogota, Colombia.
⁶ Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁷ Addictions Service, Department of Territorial Services, Italian National Health System, ASL Teramo, Italy.
⁸ Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
⁹ Helwan Mental Health Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
¹⁰ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
¹¹ Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal.
¹² Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Maharashtra, India.
¹³ Department of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁴ Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁵ Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Benito Menni CASM, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain; University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Tarakan General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
¹⁷ Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, School of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.

PMID: 32585636
PMCID: PMC7296313
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Ramalho et al. Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct:53:102234.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
³ Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Community Based Mental Health Center and House for Integration, Prizren, Kosovo.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁵ CERSAME School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario - Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bogota, Colombia.
⁶ Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁷ Addictions Service, Department of Territorial Services, Italian National Health System, ASL Teramo, Italy.
⁸ Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
⁹ Helwan Mental Health Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
¹⁰ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
¹¹ Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal.
¹² Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Maharashtra, India.
¹³ Department of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁴ Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁵ Fidmag Research Foundation, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Benito Menni CASM, Hermanas Hospitalarias, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain; University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Tarakan General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
¹⁷ Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, School of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.

PMID: 32585636
PMCID: PMC7296313
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

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[1] Das N. Psychiatrist in post-COVID-19 era–are we prepared? Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102082. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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[4] De Sousa A., Mohandas E., Javed A. Psychological interventions during COVID-19: challenges for low and middle income countries. Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102128. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Kavoor A.R., Chakravarthy K., John T. Remote consultations in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary experience in a regional Australian public acute mental health care setting. Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102074. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Kavoor A.R., Chakravarthy K., John T. Remote consultations in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary experience in a regional Australian public acute mental health care setting. Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102074. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Pereira-Sanchez V., Adiukwu F., El Hayek S., Gashi Bytyçi D., Gonzalez-Diaz J.M., Kudva Kundadak G., Larnaout A., Nofal M., Orsolini L., Ramalho R., Ransing R., Shalbafan M., Soler-Vidal J., Syarif Z., Schuh Teixeira A.L., Pinto da Costa M. COVID-19 effect on mental health: patients and workforce. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020;7(6):E29–E30. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102085. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Pereira-Sanchez V., Adiukwu F., El Hayek S., Gashi Bytyçi D., Gonzalez-Diaz J.M., Kudva Kundadak G., Larnaout A., Nofal M., Orsolini L., Ramalho R., Ransing R., Shalbafan M., Soler-Vidal J., Syarif Z., Schuh Teixeira A.L., Pinto da Costa M. COVID-19 effect on mental health: patients and workforce. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020;7(6):E29–E30. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102085. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Ransing R., Adiukwu F., Pereira-Sanchez V., Ramalho R., Orsolini L., Teixeira A.L.S., Gonzalez-Diaz J.M., Pinto da Costa M., Soler-Vidal J., Gashi Bytyçi D., El Hayek S., Larnaout A., Shalbafan M., Syarif Z., Nofal M., Kudva Kundadak G.K. Mental health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual framework by early career psychiatrists. Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102085. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Ransing R., Adiukwu F., Pereira-Sanchez V., Ramalho R., Orsolini L., Teixeira A.L.S., Gonzalez-Diaz J.M., Pinto da Costa M., Soler-Vidal J., Gashi Bytyçi D., El Hayek S., Larnaout A., Shalbafan M., Syarif Z., Nofal M., Kudva Kundadak G.K. Mental health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual framework by early career psychiatrists. Asian J. Psychiatry. 2020;51 doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102085. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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