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Comment
. 2021 Jan;66(1):14-16.
doi: 10.1177/0706743720957824. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

COVID-19 and the Future with Digital Mental Health: Need for Attention to Complexities

Ashok Malla  1 , Ridha Joober  1
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COVID-19 and the Future with Digital Mental Health: Need for Attention to Complexities

Ashok Malla et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: digital interventions; telehealth COVID-19; telepsychiatry; youth mental health.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: A.M. served as a research consultant to and gave lectures at conferences supported by Lundbeck and Otsuka and was on an advisory board meeting for the same 2 companies for which he received honoraria. R.J. served as speaker and member of advisory board committees for Pfizer, Janssen, BMS, Sunovian, Myelin, Otsuka, Lundbeck, shire, and Perdue. He also received grants from Janssen, BMS, Otsuka, Lundbeck, Astra Zeneca, and HLS, within the last 3 years, unrelated to the submitted work.

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