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Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah

COVID-19 has impacted the world in many ways due to fears of contracting the pandemic, social distancing, and large-scale movement control rules. These have especially grave consequences for inpatient psychiatry. This article reviews measures taken to adapt to the new norm in inpatient care, both fo...

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Main Authors: Sze, Chet Lee, Chun, Keat Ng, Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim, Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Penerbit UMS 2020
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RA790-790.95 Mental health. Mental illness prevention
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/2/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/
https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2439/1606
https://doi.org/10.51200/bej.v1i1.2439
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spelling my.ums.eprints.342362022-09-29T03:20:17Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/ Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah Sze, Chet Lee Chun, Keat Ng Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping RA790-790.95 Mental health. Mental illness prevention COVID-19 has impacted the world in many ways due to fears of contracting the pandemic, social distancing, and large-scale movement control rules. These have especially grave consequences for inpatient psychiatry. This article reviews measures taken to adapt to the new norm in inpatient care, both for standalone psychiatry units and consultation-liaison units. For inpatient units, changes have been made for personal protective equipment usage, screening and triaging policies, and training and educational policies. Consultation liaison units together with inpatient units have been required to expand the scope of coverage and difficulties by providing certain teleconsultation services. As the new norm takes precedence, Sabah has to embrace and empower community-based psychiatry services for better outreach and coverage. This article discusses the issues underlying the new norm in the management of inpatient psychiatry patients in both units and presents some points and practical solutions on the ground to instil hope. Penerbit UMS 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/2/ABSTRACT.pdf Sze, Chet Lee and Chun, Keat Ng and Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim and Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping (2020) Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah. Borneo Epidemiology Journal, 1 (1). pp. 79-87. ISSN 2735-0266 (P-ISSN) , 2716-7070 (E-ISSN) https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2439/1606 https://doi.org/10.51200/bej.v1i1.2439
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language English
English
topic RA790-790.95 Mental health. Mental illness prevention
spellingShingle RA790-790.95 Mental health. Mental illness prevention
Sze, Chet Lee
Chun, Keat Ng
Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim
Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
description COVID-19 has impacted the world in many ways due to fears of contracting the pandemic, social distancing, and large-scale movement control rules. These have especially grave consequences for inpatient psychiatry. This article reviews measures taken to adapt to the new norm in inpatient care, both for standalone psychiatry units and consultation-liaison units. For inpatient units, changes have been made for personal protective equipment usage, screening and triaging policies, and training and educational policies. Consultation liaison units together with inpatient units have been required to expand the scope of coverage and difficulties by providing certain teleconsultation services. As the new norm takes precedence, Sabah has to embrace and empower community-based psychiatry services for better outreach and coverage. This article discusses the issues underlying the new norm in the management of inpatient psychiatry patients in both units and presents some points and practical solutions on the ground to instil hope.
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author Sze, Chet Lee
Chun, Keat Ng
Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim
Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
author_facet Sze, Chet Lee
Chun, Keat Ng
Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim
Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
author_sort Sze, Chet Lee
title Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
title_short Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
title_full Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
title_fullStr Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
title_full_unstemmed Unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspective from Sabah
title_sort unique challenges for mental health in inpatient settings amid the covid-19 pandemic: perspective from sabah
publisher Penerbit UMS
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/2/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34236/
https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2439/1606
https://doi.org/10.51200/bej.v1i1.2439
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