Juan Fernando Cano1, Jairo Mario González-Díaz2, Alexie Vallejo-Silva2, Marcela Alzate-García3, Rodrigo Nel Córdoba-Rojas4. 1. Centro Rosarista de Salud Mental - CeRSaMe, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud - EMCS, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: juanf.cano@urosario.edu.co. 2. Centro Rosarista de Salud Mental - CeRSaMe, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud - EMCS, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. 3. Centro de Investigaciones del Sistema Nervioso - Grupo CISNE, Bogotá, Colombia. 4. Centro Rosarista de Salud Mental - CeRSaMe, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud - EMCS, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia; Centro de Investigaciones del Sistema Nervioso - Grupo CISNE, Bogotá, Colombia.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on multiple levels, one being the way of providing mental health care services. A study was proposed in order to identify the standpoints regarding the role we must assume as psychiatrists in the setting of this pandemic in Colombia. METHODS: A study was developed employing a Delphi-type methodology. Three types of psychiatrist were included for the application of the instrument: directors of academic psychiatry programmes, directors of mental health institutions and private practitioners. RESULTS: Responses were collected over the course of a month (between April and May) by 24 participants corresponding to 14 private practitioners (58.3%), 6 heads of academic programmes (25.1%) and 4 directors of mental health services (16.6%). The results, grouped around the psychiatric work, describe the impact generated by the pandemic and the possible role of the specialist. CONCLUSIONS: Consistency was identified around the need to provide a differential approach according to the vulnerabilities of each group of people exposed to the pandemic; as well as the remote provision of health care through technology, often using videoconferencing.
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on multiple levels, one being the way of providing mental health care services. A study was proposed in order to identify the standpoints regarding the role we must assume as psychiatrists in the setting of this pandemic in Colombia. METHODS: A study was developed employing a Delphi-type methodology. Three types of psychiatrist were included for the application of the instrument: directors of academic psychiatry programmes, directors of mental health institutions and private practitioners. RESULTS: Responses were collected over the course of a month (between April and May) by 24 participants corresponding to 14 private practitioners (58.3%), 6 heads of academic programmes (25.1%) and 4 directors of mental health services (16.6%). The results, grouped around the psychiatric work, describe the impact generated by the pandemic and the possible role of the specialist. CONCLUSIONS: Consistency was identified around the need to provide a differential approach according to the vulnerabilities of each group of people exposed to the pandemic; as well as the remote provision of health care through technology, often using videoconferencing.
Authors: Carmen Moreno; Til Wykes; Silvana Galderisi; Merete Nordentoft; Nicolas Crossley; Nev Jones; Mary Cannon; Christoph U Correll; Louise Byrne; Sarah Carr; Eric Y H Chen; Philip Gorwood; Sonia Johnson; Hilkka Kärkkäinen; John H Krystal; Jimmy Lee; Jeffrey Lieberman; Carlos López-Jaramillo; Miia Männikkö; Michael R Phillips; Hiroyuki Uchida; Eduard Vieta; Antonio Vita; Celso Arango Journal: Lancet Psychiatry Date: 2020-07-16 Impact factor: 27.083