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. 2021 Jul 12;17:52–60. doi: 10.2174/1745017902117010052

Appendix Table 1. Impact on psychiatric patients and mental health professionals.

Subject Impact
Patients with psychosis      ▪ Loss to follow-up
     ▪ Avoiding proper treatment
     ▪ More susceptible to infection
     ▪ More likely to become spreaders
Patients with depression      ▪ Depression could be precipitated due to
               o Increasing stress
               o Disrupting normal routines and recreational activities
               o Social distancing
               o Decreased physical activity
     ▪ Anxiety about economic problem
     ▪ More prone to viral infection due to suppressed immunological function
Patients with suicidality      ▪ Increasing rate of death by suicide due to
               o Unemployment
               o Social change
               o Economic recession
               o Financial problems
Mental health professionals      ▪ Depression
     ▪ Anxiety
     ▪ Insomnia
     ▪ Posttraumatic stress disorder
     ▪ Burnout
     ▪ Moral injury
     ▪ Reduced workforce in psychiatric hospitals