Pandemics: Health Care Emergencies

Morganstein, Joshua C.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Ursano, Robert J.; Donato, Darrin; Holloway, Harry C.

doi:10.1017/9781316481424.019

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“…In parallel to physical disease, outbreaks can result in psychological distress, undesirable behavioural responses and functional impairment (Morganstein et al, 2017;Person et al, 2004;Shultz et al, 2016). Outbreak life-cycles present in three phases: pre-outbreak, peri-outbreak and post-outbreak.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lessons on responsiveness to the needs of vulnerable groups have been learned from past outbreaks. For example, in their review on pandemics, Morganstein et al (2017) emphasise the importance of identifying vulnerable populations and managing stigma. They also highlight that access issues can also be addressed by considerations around socioeconomic and cultural factors.…”

Section: Lessons On Meeting the Needs Of Vulnerable Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Learning the hard way’ – adapting long-term IAPT service provision using lessons from past outbreaks

Skilbeck

Spanton

Roylance

2020

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Infectious disease outbreaks have occurred sporadically over the centuries. The most significant ones of this century, as reported by the WHO, include the EVD epidemic, SARS pandemic, Swine Flu pandemic and MERS pandemic. The long-term mental health consequences of outbreaks are as profound as physical ones and can last for years post-outbreak. This highlights the need for enhancing the preparedness of pragmatic mental health service provision. Due to its magnitude, the novel COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be the most impactful. Compared to previous outbreaks, COVID-19 has also occurred at higher rates in frontline staff in addition to patients. Since COVID-19 is more contagious than earlier outbreaks, there is a need to identify infected people quickly and isolate them and their contacts. This is the current context in which mental health services including IAPT have had to operate. Evidently, IAPT services are a major mental health service provider in the UK which have demonstrated variability in their response to COVID-19. While some IAPT services quickly adapted their existing strengths and resources (e.g. remote working) other services were less prepared. To date there are no clear unitary guidelines on how IAPT services can use their pre-existing resources to respond to the long-term effects of outbreaks. In light of this, the current paper aims to reflect on the lessons learned from past outbreaks in order to consider how an enhanced remit of IAPT might integrate with other services to meet the long-term needs of patients and staff affected by COVID-19.

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Section: Outbreak Life-cycle and Psychological Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lessons On Meeting the Needs Of Vulnerable Groupsmentioning

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Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Learning the hard way’ – adapting long-term IAPT service provision using lessons from past outbreaks

Skilbeck

Spanton

Roylance

2020

tCBT

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“…We refer to health anxiety as a user's "exaggerated estimates of the likelihood and severity of having an illness" (Abramowitz et al, 2007, p. 873). Health anxiety has become a common and critical theme in pandemics (Wheaton et al, 2011), as it results in unusual and partly irrational user behaviour, such as generally avoiding crowded places (Lau et al, 2010;Morganstein et al, 2017), making unnecessary preemptive visits at doctors or avoiding doctors altogether (Wong et al, 2020) and even developing dangerous self-medications like drinking bleach (Spinney, 2020). Whereas previous studies have demonstrated that higher levels of health anxiety can lead to selecting less crowded locations (Lau et al, 2010), little is known about how health anxiety interacts with the processing of differently immediate CI.…”

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Containing COVID-19 through physical distancing: the impact of real-time crowding information

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Werner

Wendt

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European Journal of Information Systems

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With the rise of COVID-19, decision support systems (DSS) increasingly display crowding information (CI) (e.g. how crowded a medical practice is) to encourage physical distancing when users select locations. Despite important implications for containing COVID-19, little is known about the causal effect of CI on user selection behaviour and how the immediacy of CI (e.g. "updated 2 minutes ago") as well as users' health anxiety further influence the effect of CI. Drawing on literature on digital choice environments and construal level theory, we conducted a multinational online experiment to investigate the effect of CI on selecting differently crowded medical practices. Our results demonstrate that present (vs. absent) CI in DSS increases the likelihood of users selecting less crowded medical practices, while the effect is strongest when employed with real-time (vs. historical average) CI and, surprisingly, when users' health anxiety is low (vs. high). Overall, our study adds to the growing body of research on IS in the age of pandemics and provides actionable insights for DSS providers and policymakers to endow users with information to identify and select less crowded locations, thus containing COVID-19 through improved physical distancing without paternalistically restricting users' freedom of choice.

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“…The King County outbreak has brought multiple clinical and research teams into the frontlines of the pandemic response. Historically, pandemics have had severe global consequences with physical and mental health impacts equal to other major categories of disaster-related health-care emergencies, such as war and natural disasters (Brooks et al, 2020;Morganstein et al, 2017). Pandemics can result in a unique constellation of psychological stressors and behavioral issues.…”

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“…Individuals exposed to infectious agents during pandemics may not be aware of their risk until they develop symptoms, possibly days or weeks after the exposure, making public health containment efforts challenging. While multiple United States national and organizational guidances targeting the COVID-19 pandemic response are being disseminated, literature review revealed few current US published reports describing the integration of these guidances by front-line clinical and research teams interacting with at-risk patients (2019Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Response Program, 2020, Coronavirus (COVID-19), 2020; COVID-19 (2019novel coronavirus) resource center for physicians, 2020; Morganstein et al, 2017, andPandemics, 2020).…”

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Experiences and Insights from the Early US COVID-19 Epicenter: A Rapid Assessment Procedure Informed Clinical Ethnography Case Series

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Pandemics: Health Care Emergencies

Cited by 61 publications

References 30 publications

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Learning the hard way’ – adapting long-term IAPT service provision using lessons from past outbreaks

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Learning the hard way’ – adapting long-term IAPT service provision using lessons from past outbreaks

Containing COVID-19 through physical distancing: the impact of real-time crowding information

Experiences and Insights from the Early US COVID-19 Epicenter: A Rapid Assessment Procedure Informed Clinical Ethnography Case Series

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