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

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

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Abstract

We are a team of psychiatrists from countries representing all six World Health Organization regions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health departments in our countries have been forced to close most outpatient services and even some inpatient units, with psychiatrists often being deployed to medical units to cope with the pandemic. These measures have strained these departments’ ability to support the population, due to the higher demand for their services and the increasing difficulties in providing care onsite. Still, the role of mental health care has remained crucial during these times of crisis (
Tandon, 2020
). We have already witnessed how telepsychiatry has proven a vital resource for the delivery of mental health care, and we have put forth a call for its use in all phases of the pandemic (
Ransing et al., 2020
). However, it is still uncertain whether the way in which various healthcare services have adapted to COVID-19, an adaptation that has often included adopting telemental health care, will be able to withstand the pandemic (
Kavoor et al., 2020).

Original language	English (US)
Article number	102234
Journal	Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	53
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234
State	Published - Jun 16 2020

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Ramalho, R., Adiukwu, F., Gashi Bytyçi, D., El Hayek, S., Gonzalez-Diaz, J. M., Larnaout, A., Grandinetti, P., Kundadak, G. K., Nofal, M., Pereira-Sanchez, V., Pinto da Costa, M., Ransing, R., Schuh Teixeira, A. L., Shalbafan, M., Soler-Vidal, J., Syarif, Z., & Orsolini, L. (2020). Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 53, Article 102234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

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