Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 32 No. 2, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2020.245
COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A SERIOUS THREAT FOR PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH GLOBALLY
Samiaa Anjum
; Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Rooh Ullah
; Department of Microbiology, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan
Muhammad Suleman Rana
; Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan
Hamid Ali Khan
; Institute of Biological Sciences, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan
Fawad Shabir Memon
; Institute of Microbiology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro Sindh, Pakistan
Yasin Ahmed
; Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Sadia Jabeen
; Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
Rani Faryal
orcid.org/0000-0002-9185-839X
; Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract
Deep emotion traumas in societies around the globe are overcome by extreme human catastrophes such as natural disasters, social crises, war conflicts and infectious virus induced pandemic diseases, etc., can lead to enormous stress-related disorders. The current ongoing pandemic known as COVID-19 caused by novel Corona virus first appeared in Wuhan, city of China and then rapidly spread in the whole world. It has affected various frontiers of lives and caused numerous psychiatric problems like nervousness, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), fear and uncertainty, panic attacks, depression, obsessive compulsory disorder, xenophobia and racism, etc. Globally COVID-19 has persuaded public mental health crisis. Furthermore, inadequate resources of public mental health services in several countries are discussed in this review, which will be further straighten by the upcoming increase in demand for mental health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All mental health sciences including Psychiatry can play a very important role in the comfort of COVID-19 infected individuals and their relatives, healthcare providers and society. We need to learn more about psychological and psychiatric features of COVID-19 from the perceptions of public and global mental health in order to cope up the present deteriorating situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic; global health crisis; mental health; SARS-CoV-2
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242367
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Publication date:
13.8.2020.
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