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      Helpline provision during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences of the Mokotow Mental Health Center Translated title: Linia wsparcia w czasie pierwszej fali pandemii COVID-19: doświadczenia Mokotowskiego Centrum Zdrowia Psychicznego

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          Abstract

          Purpose

          The purpose of our study was to present the community helpline initiated by the Mokotow Mental Health Center ( Mokotowskie Centrum Zdrowia Psychicznego – MCZP) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and summarize its performance.

          Methods

          The Mokotow Helpline ( Mokotowska Linia Wsparcia – MLW) operated from March to July 2020, providing ad hoc interventions and short-term regular help by psychologists and a social worker.

          Results

          599 interventions were delivered to 262 people. Emergency support was given to 70.6% of callers and regular short-term support was provided to 29.4%. The highest number of people contacted the helpline in the first weeks of its operations, while from May 2020 onwards the frequency of calls systematically decreased. Women requested assistance twice as often as men. The most frequent reasons for contacting the line were the need for advice and support in connection with symptoms of mental illness occurring in a loved one (21.4%), request for medical services, e.g. appointment with a psychiatrist, prescription renewal or psychotherapy appointment (16.0%), anxiety (15.6%), reactive (adjustment) (13.0%) and depressive disorders (5.7%) and financial difficulties or loss of a job (5.7%). The most frequent interventions consisted of psychological support (73.8%), information or psychoeducation (16.9%), and also referring people to institutions that could provide the most appropriate form of help (8.1%).

          Conclusions

          The helpline is an easily accessible and practical means of providing assistance to the population in critical situations such as the pandemic. The kind, duration and frequency of this form of help should be varied and adapted to the wide range of problems reported by callers.

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          Celem pracy było podsumowanie i opis działania linii wsparcia dla ludności, uruchomionej przez Mokotowskie Centrum Zdrowia Psychicznego (MCZP) w czasie pierwszej fali pandemii COVID-19.

          Metody

          Mokotowska Linia Wsparcia (MLW) działała od marca do lipca 2020 r. Interwencje doraźne oraz krótkoterminowe inter-wencje cykliczne były realizowane przez psychologów i pracownika socjalnego.

          Wyniki

          Podjęto 599 interwencji w stosunku do 262 osób. Wsparcie doraźne otrzymało 70,6%, a wsparcie cykliczne – 29,4% osób. Najwięcej osób kontaktowało się z linią wsparcia w pierwszych tygodniach jej funkcjonowania, od maja częstość zgłoszeń systematycznie spadała. Kobiety zgłaszały się dwukrotnie częściej niż mężczyźni. Najczęstszymi powodami kontaktu z MLW były: chęć uzyskania porady i wsparcia w związku z objawami zaburzeń psychicznych występującymi u bliskiej osoby (21,4%), chęć uzyskania świadczeń medycznych, np. zapisu do psychiatry, otrzymania recept lub zapisu na psychoterapię (16,0%), zaburzenia lękowe (15,6%), reaktywne (adaptacyjne) (13,0%) i depresyjne (5,7%) oraz trudności finansowe lub utrata pracy (5,7%). Przeprowadzone interwencje polegały najczęściej na udzieleniu wsparcia psychologicznego (73,8%), udzieleniu informacji lub przeprowadzeniu szeroko pojętej psychoedukacji (16,9%) oraz na przekierowaniu do instytucji świadczących pomoc najbardziej adekwatną w danej sytuacji (8,1%).

          Wnioski

          Linia wsparcia jest łatwo dostępnym i praktycznym środkiem udzielania pomocy ludności w kryzysowej sytuacji, takiej jak pandemia. Rodzaj, czas trwania i intensywność tej pomocy powinny być zróżnicowane i dostosowane do szerokiego wachlarza problemów zgłaszanych przez osoby dzwoniące.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Postep Psychiatr Neurol
                Postep Psychiatr Neurol
                PPN
                Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology
                Termedia Publishing House
                1230-2813
                2720-5371
                10 June 2021
                March 2021
                : 30
                : 1
                : 1-11
                Affiliations
                [1]1 st Department of Psychiatry, Mokotow Mental Health Center, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
                Author notes
                Correspondence to/Adres do korespondencji: Adam Zabrzygraj 1 st Department of Psychiatry Mokotow Mental Health Center Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology 9 Sobieskiego St. 02-957 Warsaw, Poland phone: +48 22 458 27 73 fax: +48 22 458 28 18 e-mail: azabrzygraj@ 123456ipin.edu.pl
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0805-6696
                Article
                44363
                10.5114/ppn.2021.106815
                9881611
                37082033
                08a00659-a289-4ebd-a6dd-98f2e3ba3ed1
                Copyright © 2021 Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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                : 02 February 2021
                : 20 March 2021
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                helpline,mental health,coronavirus,pandemic,covid-19,linia wsparcia,zdrowie psychiczne,koronawirus,pandemia

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