Implementation of quarantine in China during the outbreak of COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China.
² Department of Psychiatry, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yunnan 650101, China.
³ Department of Clinical Psychology, Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200124, China.

Comment

Chuanyuan Kang et al. Psychiatry Res. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:289:113038.

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113038. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

¹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China.
² Department of Psychiatry, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yunnan 650101, China.
³ Department of Clinical Psychology, Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200124, China.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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