The situation for seeking help from the ncmh of inpatients and isolated people with new coronavirus (sars-cov-2) infection

Abstract

Background: Outbreaks of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, which began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, quickly spread around the world and reached pandemic levels. The WHO emphasizes the need for mental health care for the world’s population due to the growing number of mental health problems associated with the pandemic. Therefore we aimed to define the situation of receiving mental health care from isolated people and inpatients (isolated after treatment course) Ethics: Ethical approval was obtained from the Medical Ethics Review Committee under the Ministry of Health on July 08, 2020. Methodology: The study design was descriptive and cross-sectional. We used electronic technology for collecting data due to pandemic infection control regimes. Result: Since the outbreak of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus infection worldwide, from March 28 to September 20, 2020, a total of 25 cases, who have been treating in the NCCD or isolated in other isolation & observation places (such as Jargalant, Sentii, SunjinGrand, Taij and Mongolica etc) were provided necessary mental health care (such as individual counseling, psychotropic treatment, feedback with the case, and hot-line counseling for physicians etc) for 40 times. Among total cases receiving mental health care, the majority were with anxiety syndrome (n=6, 24%) and paranoid syndrome (n=5, 20%). Conclusion: Psychotropic treatment and individual counselling provided for COVID-infected inpatients and isolated people with most common psychiatric syndroms.