Employing telepsychiatry services to assess the prevalence and identify mental health disorders using the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 in resource-constrained regions of Dadar Mansehra, Pakistan: an observational cross-sectional study
Iffat Zafar Aga, Sara Saeed Khurram, Mahek Karim, Muhammad Muzzamil, Shahkamal Hashmi, Kashif Shafique · 2023
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Iffat Zafar Aga and five co-authors used telepsychiatry to gauge mental health needs in a low-resource part of Pakistan, in a study from twenty twenty-three. Care was given through nurse-aided online clinics run by Sehat Kahani for low-income areas. Two short forms, the PHQ-9 and GAD-7, were used to screen for low mood and anxiety. The study covered two thousand six hundred sixty people seen from October to December twenty twenty-two.
Nearly all who took part were women. About seventeen percent had moderate low mood and about twenty-one percent had severe low mood. People who were widowed or divorced were more prone to low mood than those who were single. The authors say women in Pakistan bear a heavy share of these ills, and that care by screen can reach them where clinics are scarce.
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| CREATOR | Iffat Zafar Aga, Sara Saeed Khurram, Mahek Karim, Muhammad Muzzamil, Shahkamal Hashmi, Kashif Shafique |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |