Mental health in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: initial assessment
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COVID-19 pandemic posed a significant risk to mental health. Specific stress factors having a negative impact on the mental health emerged, population groups more vulnerable to psychological stress and pathological psychological responses were formed, the number of heterogeneous mental disorders (depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, etc.) rapidly increased almost in one third of the population and in 2/5-1/2 of medical specialists at the sources of outbreak. Selection of effective psychopharmacological drugs for management and treatment of mental disorders, taking into account the need for their combination with antiviral drugs in the weakened patients with COVID-19, is the main practical problem.
2017 ◽
Vol 23
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pp. 137-141
2021 ◽
Vol 3
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2017 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 394