Population Mental Health and COVID-19: Why Do We Know So Little?

Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Sep;66(9):782-784. doi: 10.1177/07067437211010523. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Authors

Scott B Patten¹, Stanley Kutcher², David Streiner³, David Gratzer⁴, Paul Kurdyak⁴, Lakshmi Yatham⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
³ Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: epidemiology; general population; health services; healthcare policy; prevalence; research.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Mental Disorders* / epidemiology
Mental Disorders* / therapy
Mental Health
Mental Health Services*
SARS-CoV-2