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Hesham M Hamoda1, Anna Chiumento1, Olakunle Alonge1
1Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (Hamoda); Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom (Chiumento, Hamdani, Rahman); Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (Alonge); Human Development Research Foundation, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan (Hamdani, Rahman); Institute of Psychiatry, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research and Training, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan (Hamdani); World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo (Saeed); Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (Wissow). Kathleen M. Pike, Ph.D., is editor of this column.
Abstract:
Children are likely to struggle with mental health consequences relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. School closures and home confinement increase the risk for emotional distress, domestic violence and abuse, and social isolation, as well as for disruption of sleep-wake and meal cycles, physical exercise routines, and health care access. As schools reopen, school mental health programs (SMHPs) incorporating universal approaches will be important for all children, and targeted approaches will be necessary for those more severely affected. Using their experience in Pakistan, the authors provide a roadmap for extending the World Health Organization's eastern Mediterranean region's SMHP to address the mental health consequences of COVID-19 among children globally.
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