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

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Ethelreda Nakimuli and Peter Jones discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and review recent research findings.

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 hea...

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Guests: Ethelreda Nakimuli, Peter Jones

Topics covered

• COVID-19
• mental health
• pandemic effects
• policy approaches
• evidence synthesis

Keywords

• COVID-19
• mental health
• pandemic
• policy
• evidence
• effects
• research

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Organizations: The Lancet Group

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