Coronavirus (COVID-19): mental health - transition and recovery plan

This plan outlines our response to the mental health impacts of COVID-19. It addresses the challenges that the pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on the population’s mental health.


Footnotes

1. Public Health Scotland (2020) Rapid review of the impact of COVID-19 on mental health: http://www.healthscotland.scot/publications/rapid-review-of-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health

2. Public Health England (2020) COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing surveillance report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report

3. The Scottish Mental Health Research Advisory Group has published three Mental Health and COVID-19 evidence briefings to accompany their minutes: https://www.gov.scot/groups/coronavirus-covid-19-mental-health-research-advisory-group/

4. Institute for Fiscal Studies (2020) The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/The-mental-health-effects-of-the-first-two-months-of-lockdown-and-social-distancing-during-the-Covid-19-pandemic-in-the-UK.pdf

5. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report/2-important-findings-so-far#which-population-groups-appear-to-be-disproportionally-affected

6. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report/7-children-and-young-people

7. Institute for Fiscal Studies (2020) Recessions and health: the long-term health consequences of responses to the coronavirus https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/BN281-Recessions-and-health-The-long-term-health-consequences-of-responses-to-COVID-19-FINAL.pdf

8. Centre for Mental Health (2020) Covid-19 and the nation's mental health: Forecasting needs and risks in the UK, May 2020 https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-05/CentreforMentalHealth_COVID_MH_Forecasting_May20.pdf

9. Walton et al, (2020) Mental health care for medical staff and affiliated healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2048872620922795

10. Mental Health Foundation (2017). While your back was turned: how mental health policymakers stopped paying attention to the specific needs of women and girls. London: Mental Health Foundation.

11. https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-05/CentreforMentalHealth_COVID_MH_Forecasting_May20.pdf

12. https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Public-Health/Publications/2019-06-26/2019-06-26-Suicide-Summary.pdf

13. Hatch R, Young D, Barber V, et al. (2018) Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder after critical illness: a UK-wide prospective cohort study. Critical Care 22:310

14. http://transformingpsychologicaltrauma.scot/

Contact

Email: MentalHealthStrategyandCoordinationUnit@gov.scot

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