Sonipat (Haryana) [India], May 25 (ANI/OP Jindal University): The worldwide socio-economic impact of the covid-19 epidemic has been devastating. In India there are millions of covid-positive cases and, as of mid-May, a staggering 2.87 lakh reported deaths. In 2017, before the current pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) labelled India the world's "most depressing country".
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25 May 2021, 14:18 GMT+10
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], May 25 (ANI/OP Jindal University): The worldwide socio-economic impact of the covid-19 epidemic has been devastating. In India there are millions of covid-positive cases and, as of mid-May, a staggering 2.87 lakh reported deaths. In 2017, before the current pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) labelled India the world s most depressing country .
It was estimated that one in seven Indians suffer from some form of mental illness. This number has undoubtedly grown as the second coronavirus wave sweeps through the country and an overwhelmed health care system struggles to provide even basic care and assistance.
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Extra funding should be made available for early years care in the wake of the pandemic, researchers say.
Experts at the University of Leeds, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University have made the call after assessing the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children under three during COVID-19.
They found children who attended childcare outside the home throughout the first UK lockdown made greater gains in language and thinking skills, particularly if they were from less advantaged backgrounds.
And now they are making several policy recommendations including
- A sustainable funding model for nursery provision
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Most patients with depression are treated in primary care, and the majority of those patients prefer psychotherapy over treatment that includes medication (i.e., pharmacotherapy). Primary care physicians, however, are more likely to prescribe antidepressants to their patients suffering from depression.
Although studies have shown the effectiveness of psychotherapy in primary care patients, researchers haven t yet examined the effects of psychotherapy compared with pharmacotherapy, combined treatment, and other clinical scenarios in primary care.
A network meta-analysis of 58 randomized control trials showed that psychotherapy, when combined with pharmacotherapy, was more effective in Primary Care than either on its own.