COVID-19, mobile health and serious mental illness

Torous, John; Keshavan, Matcheri S.

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2020.04.013

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“…3. What healthcare providers should consider while treating patients "from a distance" As the healthcare system converts to virtual platforms during the pandemic, healthcare providers should help their patients embrace and get used to telehealth or mobile health technology (Torous and Keshavan, 2020). Maintaining regular contact with patients can be vital in providing a sense of social connection and preventing symptom relapse and possible hospitalization.…”

Section: Challenges and Exacerbation Of Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of COVID-19 on individuals living with serious mental illness

Hamada

Fan

2020

Schizophrenia Research

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Section: Challenges and Exacerbation Of Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of COVID-19 on individuals living with serious mental illness

Hamada

Fan

2020

Schizophrenia Research

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“…Although telehealth was theoretically feasible for most SMI patients, there were challenges to learning and adapting telehealth quickly. Some individuals with psychosis encountered technical difficulties (Rotondi et al, 2005) and adjustment issues due to cognitive deficits (Torous & Keshavan, 2020). These challenges may create additional barriers for SMI patients to seek care.…”

Section: Covid-19 and Its Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teletherapy with serious mental illness populations during COVID-19: telehealth conversion and engagement

Miu

Palka

et al. 2020

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed daily lives and psychotherapy clinical operations. Treatment engagement with serious mental illness (SMI) populations is inherently challenging. COVID-19 may pose more challenges to treatment engagement with SMI populations due to the rapid change to telehealth and exacerbation of symptoms. SMI patients may be less likely to convert to telehealth or stay engaged in treatment compared to non-SMI patients during COVID-19. Nevertheless, treatment engagement via teletherapy is vital to supporting the vulnerable SMI populations during this stressful pandemic. In this study, we compared teletherapy conversion and utilization rates between SMI and general populations in an outpatient psychiatric clinic (n = 816) during COVID-19. We found no differences in telehealth conversion for patients with SMI (52%) and non-SMI (48%), suggesting equivalent adoption of teletherapy among SMI and non-SMI populations. Beyond conversion, we found that the SMI group had a significantly greater number of teletherapy visits compared to non-SMI patients, indicating that SMI group utilized teletherapy regularly after conversion. There were no group differences in new patients beginning therapy via telehealth, which shows that the SMI group was not more deterred to seek help. Our findings inform the feasibility of telehealth for serious mental illness populations during the pandemic.

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“…Stress-relieving interventions such as Yoga can also be delivered remotely (Schulz-Heik et al, 2017). Digital health can also go a long way to deliver mental health services remotely in disasters; several effective and user-friendly digital platforms are emerging for improving mental health care via smartphones (Torous and Keshavan, 2020).…”

Section: Treatment and Health Services Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pandemics and psychiatry: Repositioning research in context of COVID-19

Keshavan

2020

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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COVID-19, mobile health and serious mental illness

Cited by 116 publications

References 21 publications

The impact of COVID-19 on individuals living with serious mental illness

The impact of COVID-19 on individuals living with serious mental illness

Teletherapy with serious mental illness populations during COVID-19: telehealth conversion and engagement

Pandemics and psychiatry: Repositioning research in context of COVID-19

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