Telepsychiatry in the Arab World: A Viewpoint Before and During COVID-19.
Samer El HayekMarwa NofalDoaa AbdelrahmanAli AdraMansour Al HarthiSiham Al ShamliNawaf AlNuaimiLynda BensidMohamad Ali CheaitoAlkhansa Mahdi EmberishAmine LarnaoutAhmed RadwanMohammad SlaihFiras H KobeissyMaya BizriPublished in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment (2020)
The use of digital mental health services varies between different Arab countries. Even though some nations have laws that regulate the provision of such services, most struggle with multifactorial barriers. As affordable and attainable solutions cannot only rely on training and recruiting more psychiatrists, telepsychiatry would help meet the exceeding demands in the Arab world, particularly after the COVID-19 outbreak.
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