Mental health of helpline staff in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Psychiatry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
² Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
⁴ Regional Centre for Children and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare - Central Norway, IPH, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁵ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Geneva, Switzerland.

Irina Pinchuk et al. Eur Psychiatry. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 10;65(1):e45.

doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2306.

¹ Institute of Psychiatry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
² Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
⁴ Regional Centre for Children and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare - Central Norway, IPH, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁵ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Geneva, Switzerland.

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