Tag: COVID-19
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New Pre-Print > Mental health care: Adverse Sequelae of Covid-19 (MASC Pilot Study)
The new paper produced by the MASC consortium titled “Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health care and people with mental health conditions in Ethiopia: the MASC mixed-methods study” is currently under review at BMC. Some of the preliminary results indicated that despite national level recognition of mental health as a key aspect of…
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The Kindness of Lemons: Addressing COVID-19 stigma with small acts of kindness
‘There are two big lemon trees in the garden, growing delicious organic and very friendly lemons that end up rotting away because no one is eating them’. These are the words that my mother says every year around spring time. She lives in the Balearic Islands, Spain, and what she really means is ‘Come visit…
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The Silent Pandemic: Covid-19 and mental health
Health Anxiety & Mental Distress What are the mental health effects of the pandemic for all of us, for the whole population? The early features of what is called ‘health anxiety’ were manifest from the first few days: panic buying, stockpiling and hoarding. Research in recent months has painted a picture of more prolonged and…