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Ethelreda Nakimuli and Peter Jones on the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health

Ethelreda Nakimuli and Peter Jones on the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health

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How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect mental health?

Now that some years have passed since the pandemic's height, we can learn more from synthesising all the evidence about its shorter and longer term effects.

In this episode, Ethelreda Nakimuli and Peter Jones talk about two new papers that gather the past 5 years of work on the pandemic and mental health and policy approaches. They talk about the different effects of the pandemic on different groups' mental health, how mental health care was affected, and about what we can learn for future crises about different types of public health response to the pandemic.

Click here to read the full articles:

  • https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(25)00247-0 /fulltext
  • https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(25)00358-X/fulltext

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