Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Ramalho; Frances Adiukwu; Drita Gashi Bytyçi; Samer El Hayek; Jairo M Gonzalez-Diaz; Amine Larnaout; Paolo Grandinetti; Ganesh Kudva Kundadak; Marwa Nofal; Victor Pereira-Sanchez; Mariana Pinto da Costa; Ramdas Ransing; Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira; Mohammadreza Shalbafan; Joan Soler-Vidal; Zulvia Syarif; Laura Orsolini

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Oct:53:102234. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

Authors

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: r.ramalho@auckland.ac.nz.
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.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Forecasting
Global Health
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Infection Control / methods
International Cooperation
Mental Disorders* / epidemiology
Mental Disorders* / therapy
Mental Health Services* / organization & administration
Mental Health Services* / trends
Mental Health* / ethics
Mental Health* / trends
Organizational Innovation
SARS-CoV-2
Telemedicine* / ethics
Telemedicine* / methods
Telemedicine* / organization & administration
Telemedicine* / standards