July 2020
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The Lancet Psychiatry
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July 2020
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267 Reads
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The Lancet Psychiatry
June 2020
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The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science
The scope of mental health research in the COVID-19 Pandemic and its aftermath - Matthew Hotopf, Ed Bullmore, Rory C O'Connor, Emily A. Holmes
April 2020
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2,025 Reads
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The Lancet Psychiatry
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These priorities were informed by surveys of the public and an expert panel convened by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity, MQ: Transforming Mental Health, in the first weeks of the pandemic in the UK in March, 2020. We urge UK research funding agencies to work with researchers, people with lived experience, and others to establish a high level coordination group to ensure that these research priorities are addressed, and to allow new ones to be identified over time. The need to maintain high-quality research standards is imperative. International collaboration and a global perspective will be beneficial. An immediate priority is collecting high-quality data on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the whole population and vulnerable groups, and on brain function, cognition, and mental health of patients with COVID-19. There is an urgent need for research to address how mental health consequences for vulnerable groups can be mitigated under pandemic conditions, and on the impact of repeated media consumption and health messaging around COVID-19. Discovery, evaluation, and refinement of mechanistically driven interventions to address the psychological, social, and neuroscientific aspects of the pandemic are required. Rising to this challenge will require integration across disciplines and sectors, and should be done together with people with lived experience. New funding will be required to meet these priorities, and it can be efficiently leveraged by the UK's world-leading infrastructure. This Position Paper provides a strategy that may be both adapted for, and integrated with, research efforts in other countries.
... Vulnerable groups whose mental health risks were disproportionately affected by the pandemic include those with pre-existing mental health conditions (Burton et al., 2021;Iob et al., 2020); young adults and women (Niedzwiedz et al., 2021;O'Connor et al., 2021) and people from racialised minorities (Iob et al., 2020;Katikireddi et al., 2021). While the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on those already vulnerable to mental health issues and disparities in mental healthcare is projected to be long-lasting across the UK (Holmes et al., 2020), the national picture is at its most intense in the region covered by this study. The pandemic amplified pre-existing regional inequalities between the North and the rest of the country in a significant decrease in mental and financial wellbeing in the North-West (Northern Health Science Association, 2021). ...
July 2020
The Lancet Psychiatry
... The statistically indifferent emotional state that persists despite the "return to normal" also shows that the endemic blues and its by-products may not spontaneously subside in a few years, given the length of time people remained under the influence of COVID-19 and the extent of life disruption compared to the SARS and MERS outbreaks [21]. Similar concerns have been raised that the psychological sequelae may have delayed effects, particularly on self-harm [96] and suicide [97], if not addressed by timely interventions. Measures to reduce hopelessness and practice adaptive coping skills are needed to help young people become resilient [98]. ...
June 2020
The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science
... This spread was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and by prolonged stringent measures applied by public health institutions to mitigate this highly contagious pandemic 8,9 . Studies have shown the prevalence of psychological distress, specifically anxiety and depression 10,11 , during prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns. These restrictions were associated with social adherence measures such as reduced social interaction, specifically stringent social distancing and systematic quarantine. ...
April 2020
The Lancet Psychiatry