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Post-COVID-19 Phase Becomes the New Reality

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 April 2023) | Viewed by 2133

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Dr. Luciana Albano

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Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 5, Via Luciano Armanni, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: public health; epidemiology; health systems; health policy; preventive medicine
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Dr. Pietro Ferrara

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Center for Public Health Research, University of Milan-Bicocca, Via Pergolesi 33, 20900 Monza, Italy
Interests: epidemiology; public health; population-based healthcare; health policy; preventive medicine
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are currently putting together a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled, “Post-COVID-19 Phase Becomes the New Reality".

As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact have negatively affected humanity. In particular, the pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to society and health sectors across the entire world. The swift development of vaccines against the disease and vast global immunization campaigns have accelerated the hope of rapidly managing COVID-19-related burden and returning to ‘normal life’. However, the post-COVID-19 phase represents a new era for the management of healthcare, and health systems and services require a paradigm shift in order to properly meet patients’ previous and current needs.

This Special Issue aims to collect highlights of the current research on the impact of COVID-19 on the health and well-being of the population and discuss evidence-based models and recommendations to guide our “new reality”.

We look forward to receiving your contributions, both qualitative and quantitative, to post-COVID-19 research.

Dr. Luciana Albano
Dr. Pietro Ferrara
Guest Editors

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The Electronic Mental Wellness Tool as a Self-Administered Brief Screening Instrument for Mental Disorders in the General Spanish Population during the Post-COVID-19 Era
by Ismael Martinez-Nicolas, Cale Basaraba, David Delgado-Gomez, Olatz Lopez-Fernandez, Enrique Baca-Garcia and Milton L. Wainberg
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(4), 3204; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043204 - 11 Feb 2023
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(1) Background: In the “post-COVID-19 era”, there is a need to focus on properly assessing and addressing the extent of its well-established mental health collateral damage. The “Electronic Mental Wellness Tool” (E-mwTool) is a 13-item validated stepped-care or stratified management instrument that aims [...] Read more.
(1) Background: In the “post-COVID-19 era”, there is a need to focus on properly assessing and addressing the extent of its well-established mental health collateral damage. The “Electronic Mental Wellness Tool” (E-mwTool) is a 13-item validated stepped-care or stratified management instrument that aims at the high-sensitivity captures of individuals with mental health disorders to determine the need for mental health care. This study validated the E-mwTool in a Spanish-speaking population. (2) Methods: It is a cross-sectional validation study using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a criterion standard in a sample of 433 participants. (3) Results: About 72% of the sample had a psychiatric disorder, and 67% had a common mental disorder. Severe mental disorders, alcohol use disorders, substance use disorders, and suicide risk had a much lower prevalence rate (6.7%, 6.2%, 3.2%, and 6.2%, respectively). The first three items performed excellently in identifying any mental health disorder with 0.97 sensitivity. Ten additional items classified participants with common mental disorders, severe mental disorders, substance use disorders, and suicide risk. (4) Conclusions: The E-mwTool had high sensitivity in identifying common mental disorders, alcohol and substance use disorders, and suicidal risk. However, the tool’s sensitivity in detecting low-prevalence disorders in the sample was low. This Spanish version may be useful to detect patients at risk of mental health burden at the front line of primary and secondary care in facilitating help-seeking and referral by their physicians. Full article
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