Critical Thinking Assignment 3:

Covid-19 Influence on the Mentally

Ill and their Treatment Plans
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 Introduction
• Covid-19 pandemic came with numerous challenges to
individuals, families, the government and the world at large.
• The pandemic brought a total standstill across the globe.
Governments came in and tried their best to salvage their
countries through setting up strict Covid-19 guidelines that
were meant to curb the virus by reducing the rate of its
spread.
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• The pandemic caused a total disruption of the normal
services offered to mentally ill children.
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• Older adults were also affected by an approximate rate of
70%. Pregnant and nursing women were also largely
affected.
• With the need for antenatal and postnatal care, these women
needed proper attention in terms of mental health counseling
but the pandemic affected their abilities to access this service.
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• Covid-19 pandemic increased the number of people
developing mental health conditions.
• As the pandemic came into place, many breadwinners in
most families lost their jobs. As a mechanism to curb the
disease, people had to work from home with reduced wages.
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• Service delivery to the mentally ill was disrupted during the
Covid-19 pandemic.
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• The new was of life and the challenges caused by the Covid-
19 pandemic triggered new case of mental illnesses.
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• The Covid-19 pandemic also contributed to neurological
disorders.
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• Healthcare providers had to shift their courses of treatment
from physical encounters with patients to conducting mental
care and other forms of care through online platforms
(Alsoqaih et al., 2018).
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• It was a process and it was during this process that patients
with mental conditions could not access medical services.
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• Like any medical service, mental health services and care are
paid for, and loss of jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic left
many people with mental illness unable to afford mental
healthcare.
 Conclusion
• In conclusion, Covid-19 pandemic caused total disruption in
the provision of mental care services.
• The normal or usual routine mental illness treatment were
also affected since medical care providers were majorly
trying to concentrate on the rising cases of Covid-19 patients
(Alghadeer et al., 2018).
 References
• Alghadeer, S. M., Alhossan, A. M, Al-Arifi, M. N., Alrabiah, Z. S., Ali, S. W., Babelghaith, S. D., & Altamimi,
M. A. (2018). Prevalence of mental disorders among patients attending primary health care centers in the capital
of Saudi Arabia. Neurosciences, 23(3), 238–243.
• Alsoqaih, M. I. Elbedour, S. Reed, G., Woodson, K., Ricks, E., & Merrick, J. (2018). School psychology: A case
study and needs assessment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Child & Adolescent Health, 11(1),
23–36.
• Amjed Abu-G., Clementi, M., Marton, S., Schwarzwald, H., Giwa, E., Hollier, L., & Chapman, S. (2019).
Behavioral health service utilization: Trends in utilization within a patient-centered medical home for low-
income children and women. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 8(12), 3983–3989.
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