Publications by authors named "Lilian Skilbeck"

Article Synopsis
  • Mental health issues have significantly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to higher demand for mental health services and exposing existing health inequalities.
  • A study analyzed PTSD recovery rates before and during the pandemic using quantitative data from the IAPTus database to understand the impact and associated variables.
  • Results indicated that the pandemic did not significantly affect overall PTSD recovery rates, which remained below the national standard of 50%.
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Background: Long Covid is an unknown illness which has been shown to affect sufferers regardless of mild initial COVID-19 or age. There is still a lot unknown about long COVID illness. There has been a call to understand this illness not only from a professional standpoint but also through the lived experience of patients.

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Perinatal depression is prevalent in primary care in the United Kingdom. The recent NHS agenda implemented specialist perinatal mental health services to improve women's access to evidence-based care. Although there is ample research on maternal perinatal depression, paternal perinatal depression remains overlooked.

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Objective: Long COVID affects approximately ten-percent of people following post-acute Coronavirus infection. Long COVID is a complex, multisystemic recent illness. Therefore, there are currently no unitary guidelines on its management.

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Unlabelled: Infectious disease outbreaks have occurred sporadically over the centuries. The most significant ones of this century, as reported by the World Health Organization, include the EVD epidemic, SARS pandemic, Swine Flu pandemic and MERS pandemic. The long-term mental health consequences of outbreaks are as profound as physical ones and can last for years post-outbreak.

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