The early impact of COVID-19 on primary care psychological therapy services: A descriptive time series of electronic healthcare records

Bauer-Staeb, Clarissa; Davis, Alice; Smith, Theresa; Wilsher, Wendy; Betts, David N.; Eldridge, Chris; Griffith, Emma; Faraway, Julian J.; Button, Katherine S

doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100939

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“…A similar effect to that described by Bauer-Staeb et al (2021) is evident in Table 1 which shows a significant drop in referrals for all groups in Quarter 1 of 2020. This reflects uncertainty within IAPT services regarding the impact of COVID.…”

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“…IAPT services were encouraged to consider digital and remote care (NHS England, 2020) with examples of remote technologies highlighted such as: mobile messaging (including WhatsApp and Telegram); and video conferencing (Skype, WhatsApp and Facetime). Bauer-Staeb et al (2021) analyse data from five IAPT services and report the number of people entering IAPT dropped by 74% in the initial 3 weeks after lockdown in the UK, with a 28% reduction compared to pre-COVID periods by May 2020. They report that prior to lockdown, 60% of appointments took place face-to-face and 37.4% were recorded as remote, but after lockdown (in the period from 1 January 2020 to 24 May 2020) 89.2% of appointments took place remotely with 5.8% being recorded as face-to-face appointments.…”

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“…Bauer-Staeb et al (2021) analyse data from five IAPT services and report the number of people entering IAPT dropped by 74% in the initial 3 weeks after lockdown in the UK, with a 28% reduction compared to pre-COVID periods by May 2020. They report that prior to lockdown, 60% of appointments took place face-to-face and 37.4% were recorded as remote, but after lockdown (in the period from 1 January 2020 to 24 May 2020) 89.2% of appointments took place remotely with 5.8% being recorded as face-to-face appointments.…”

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT): the impact of service changes due to COVID-19 on people with learning disabilities

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Purpose Primary care psychological interventions for people with common mental health problems in England are primarily delivered through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. People with learning disabilities within IAPT have poorer key clinical outcomes than people who do not identify as having a learning disability. During the global COVID-19 pandemic remote consultations have accounted for nearly 90% of all contacts in IAPT services; this paper aims to report the effects of these on outcomes for people with learning disabilities. Design/methodology/approach Publicly available national data from the COVID-affected period are compared to the most recent available comparison periods that are not during the COVID pandemic. Data are presented graphically. Findings People with learning disabilities differ little from those with no disabilities on several key process and outcome variables, although their clinical recovery is very much lower than those without disabilities. People with learning disabilities appear to have been affected by the changes in service delivery in a similar way to those without learning disabilities. Originality/value Despite the shift to predominantly remote therapy delivery, outcomes for people with learning disabilities have not been differentially affected compared to those who have no recorded disability. The potential to learn what has worked and not worked in the delivery of remote interventions for people with learning disabilities is highlighted.

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“…ese two are also sources of lower learning pressure for students [5,6]. In previous years, students rarely come into contact with so many kinds of life and games.…”

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Psychological Consultation and Health Analysis Method for Artificial Intelligence Multidecision Support

Liu

2022

Security and Communication Networks

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With the increase in market economy and life competition, mental health problems are particularly prominent in today’s society. This is also an important reason for the sudden increase in extreme events. The frequent occurrence of violent incidents and depressive incidents is mainly caused by major problems in mental health. They accumulate greater pressure in life or study, which can easily lead to mental health problems. However, mental health problems are difficult to detect up front. When the mental health problem is more serious, they will seek a psychological counselor or a way to release stress to solve the mental health problem. Only a small number of people will take extreme measures, which will cause social or family losses. Artificial intelligence methods have better advantages in dealing with nonlinear relationships of features. This study uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) methods in artificial intelligence methods to study the characteristics of psychological counseling and health. The research results show that CNN and LSTM methods can accurately predict the characteristics of psychological counseling and health, which can do certain forecasting work for discovering people’s mental health problems. The maximum prediction error of CNN and LSTM methods in predicting the characteristics of psychological counseling and health is only 2.64%.

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“…However, demand and waiting lists soared. Conversely in the United Kingdom, also with a decline in suicide rates, access to Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT; their version of Better Access) ( Bauer-Staeb et al, 2021 ) fell by over 50% in the first few months of the 2020 lockdown, as did both referrals and acute adult admissions to secondary mental health services ( Bakolis et al, 2021 ).…”

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What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?

Glozier

Morris

Schurer

2022

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Two years ago, in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were widespread and grim predictions of an ensuing suicide epidemic. Not only has this not happened but also by the end of 2021 in the majority of countries and regions with available data, the suicide rates had, if anything, declined. We discuss four reasons why the predictions of suicide models were exaggerated: (1) government intervention reduced the economic and mental costs of lockdowns, (2) the pandemic itself and lockdowns had less of an effect on mental health than assumed, (3) the evidence for a link between economic downturns, distress and suicide is weaker and less consistent than the models assumed and (4) predicting suicide is generally hard. Predictive models have an important place, but their strong modelling assumptions need to acknowledge the inherent high degree of uncertainty which has been further augmented by behavioural responses of pandemic management.

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The early impact of COVID-19 on primary care psychological therapy services: A descriptive time series of electronic healthcare records

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT): the impact of service changes due to COVID-19 on people with learning disabilities

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT): the impact of service changes due to COVID-19 on people with learning disabilities

Psychological Consultation and Health Analysis Method for Artificial Intelligence Multidecision Support

What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?

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