LETTER
Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Action
G. Kalcev1, *, A. Preti2, G. Orrù3, M.G. Carta2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 13
First Page: 411
Last Page: 412
Publisher ID: TOPHJ-13-411
DOI: 10.2174/1874944502013010411
Article History:
Received Date: 5/5/2020Acceptance Date: 5/5/2020
Electronic publication date: 18/08/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic is likely to affect the physical and mental health and the well-being of people globally. The physicians and nurses on the frontline of patients care will be among the most affected in their psychosocial well-being, being exposed to trauma consequences and burnout syndrome. It is still unknown whether the COVID-19 infection will have direct neuropsychiatric consequences. The impact of the quarantine lockdown on mental health, too, has to be taken into account. The inclusion of mental health as part of national public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic is mandatory in assisting all those in need.