Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

Affiliations

¹ Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan; Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
² Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: gaushufe@ntu.edu.tw.

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Ying-Yeh Chen et al. J Formos Med Assoc. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;120(7):1421-1423.

doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2020.12.002. Epub 2020 Dec 7.

¹ Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan; Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
² Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: gaushufe@ntu.edu.tw.

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