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Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

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There is an urgent need for research to address how mental health consequences for vulnerable groups can be mitigated under pandemic conditions, and on the impact of repeated media consumption and health messaging around COVID-19.
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This article is published in The Lancet Psychiatry.The article was published on 2020-04-15 and is currently open access. It has received 3909 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention.

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How has COVID-19 lockdown impacted smoking? A thematic analysis of written accounts from UK smokers.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate a need for credible public health messaging on COVID-19 risk aimed at smokers, and implications for supporting smoking cessation are discussed, including maintaining quitting in those “social smokers” who quit during lockdown.
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Challenges facing essential workers: a cross-sectional survey of the subjective mental health and well-being of New Zealand healthcare and 'other' essential workers during the COVID-19 lockdown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared psychological outcomes, experiences and sources of stress over the COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand in essential workers (healthcare and 'other' essential workers) with that of workers in non-essential work roles.
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Factors mediating the psychological well-being of healthcare workers responding to global pandemics: A systematic review.

TL;DR: This article reviewed mediators of psychological well-being among healthcare workers responding to pandemics and highlighted the prevalence of poor mental health in healthcare workers and proposed target mediators for future interventions.
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Distress and risk perception in people living with multiple sclerosis during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: Even during COVID-19, distress and risk perception are primarily driven by psychological factors, experiencing symptoms consistent with CO VID-19 and age, with minimal contribution from individual differences in health status, providing an impetus for continued efforts to optimize psychological interventions for people living with MS.
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Developing thinking around mental health science: the example of intrusive, emotional mental imagery after psychological trauma.

TL;DR: Three possible approaches through which mental health science may stimulate thinking around psychological treatment innovation are illustrated, focusing on single/specific target symptoms rather than full, multifaceted psychiatric diagnoses and investigating mechanisms that can be modified in treatment.
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TL;DR: A review of the psychological impact of quarantine using three electronic databases is presented in this article, where the authors report negative psychological effects including post-traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger.
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