COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media

Pu Cheng; Guohua Xia; Peng Pang; Bo Wu; Wei Jiang; Yong Tong Li; Mei Wang; Qi Ling; Xiaoying Chang; Jinghan Wang; Xiaocheng Dai; Xiaojin Lin; Xiaoting Bi

doi:10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5

COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media

Pu Cheng, Guohua Xia, Peng Pang, Bo Wu, Wei Jiang, Yong Tong Li, Mei Wang, Qi Ling, Xiaoying Chang, Jinghan Wang, Xiaocheng Dai, Xiaojin Lin, Xiaoting Bi

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Abstract

This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely challenged the existing health care systems and caused severe mental distress to frontline healthcare workers. The authors describe the infrastructure of the team and a novel model of peer support and crisis intervention that utilized a popular social media application on smartphone. Such a model for intervention that can be used elsewhere in the face of current global pandemic, or future disaster response.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	786-792
Number of pages	7
Journal	Community Mental Health Journal
Volume	56
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5
State	Published - Jul 1 2020

Keywords

COVID
Crisis intervention
Emotional stage
Healthcare personnel
Mental health
Peer support
Smart phone
Social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychiatry and Mental health

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