{"id":4536,"date":"2020-02-20T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:35:49","slug":"online-mental-health-services-in-china-during-the-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/online-mental-health-services-in-china-during-the-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Online mental health services in China during the COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health care providers and the National Health Commission of China have noted increased stress among providers and the public due to COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early in the outbreak, China began publishing guidelines for crisis interventions. In contrast to the SARS outbreak, current resources include smartphones and online interventions such as chat groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Feb 2020 survey reveals significant levels of depression, anxiety, and insomnia.\u00a0 In response, people have been offered online counseling by professional mental health providers, and online self-help using Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Artificial Intelligence programs are also able to recognize and identify suicidal risks. These strategies may improve the efficacy of emergency response efforts going forward.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liu et al. (Feb 18, 2020). Online mental health services in China during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Lancet.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30077-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30077-8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care providers and the National Health Commission of China have noted increased stress among providers and the public due to COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0 Early in the outbreak, China began publishing guidelines for crisis interventions. In contrast to the SARS outbreak, current resources include smartphones and online interventions such as chat groups.\u00a0 A Feb 2020 survey reveals&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/online-mental-health-services-in-china-during-the-covid-19-outbreak\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}