COVID-19 coronavirus disruption mental health support approaches 2020 | Statista

The most common approach to overcome the disruption to mental health, neurological and substance abuse related (MNS) services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reported by 70 percent of countries surveyed, was a deployment of tele-medicine or tele-therapy. This statistic shows the percentage of countries using select approaches to overcome COVID-19 related disruptions in MNS services, as of August 2020.

Approaches to overcome COVID-19 related disruption in mental health, neurological and substance abuse (MNS) related services worldwide as of 2020

Characteristic	Share of surveyed countries
Tele-medicine/tele-therapy deployment to replace in person consultations	70%
Helplines established for mental health and psychosocial support	67.7%
Specific measures for infection prevention and control in mental health services	65.4%
Self-help or digital format of psychological interventions	53.8%
Triaging to identify priorities	49.2%
COVID-19 health care providers trained in basic psychosocial skills	44.6%
Discharge or redirection of patients to alternate health care facilities	44.6%
Task shifting/role delegation	37.7%
Home or community outreach services	33.1%
Novel supply chain/dispensing approaches for medicines for MNS disorders	32.3%
Recruitment of additional counsellors	20.8%

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October 2020

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Worldwide

Survey time period

June to August 2020

Number of respondents

130 countries

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