Health Care Commission: The new crown cure patients can voluntarily accept psychological assessment after discharge from the hospital

National Health Commission website September 11 news, in order to implement the Central Leading Comrades on the new crown pneumonia cure patients (hereinafter referred to as cured patients) psychological guidance and psychological intervention of the important instructions to approve the spirit, further strengthen the treatment of patients psychological guidance work, promote the comprehensive recovery of patients, the State Council to respond to the new corona pneumonia epidemic joint prevention and control mechanism integrated group issued the "new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control normal treatment of patients psychological guidance work programme."
programme aims to promote the full physical and mental rehabilitation of healing patients, including seven main measures of work. First, strengthen love and help. All regions are required to set up grass-roots service teams, regular visits to condolences, to help patients solve practical difficulties. Second, increase the intensity of education. All regions are required to carry out popular science education on the knowledge of new coronary pneumonia through authoritative media to create a good atmosphere of understanding, caring and helping patients. Third, improve health information. Relying on the national health information platform to grasp patient health information, and strictly do a good job of privacy protection. Fourth, carry out psychological assessment. After a patient is discharged from hospital and returned to the community, his or her mental health is assessed in accordance with the principles of informed consent and voluntary consent. Fifth, strengthen psychological guidance and follow-up management. It is required to set up psychological guidance service teams in various places to carry out targeted psychological intervention and follow-up management according to the wishes of patients and their families. Sixth, do a good job of crisis intervention for key population groups. The results of the assessment suggested that patients with problems or abnormalities had one-on-one targeted interventions and were admitted to hospital in a timely manner for individuals with serious problems or a clear risk of suicide and self-injury. Seven is to promote the psychological hotline platform services. It is required to improve the accessability of psychological guidance services and standardize the development of psychological hotlines.
program emphasizes that all regions should incorporate the psychological guidance of curing patients into the overall deployment of epidemic prevention and control work, and implement the psychological guidance work in sync with other prevention and control measures. We should integrate the psychological service resources of different departments, give full play to the strength of different professional teams such as psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychological consultant and social worker, and provide psychological guidance and psychological intervention services for patients. To guide the work situation, sum up experience and practice, find problems to solve in a timely manner.