The Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 and Physical Distancing: The Need for Prevention and Early Intervention

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 817-818

  Galea, Sandro ^a   Merchant, Raina M ^b   Lurie, Nicole ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PANDEMIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SUBSTANCE USE; TELEHEALTH; TEXT MESSAGING; VIDEORECORDING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEPRESSION; HUMAN RELATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUARANTINE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL HEALTH; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; QUARANTINE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 85083294996     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.1562     Document Type: Note

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