id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-342841-b1rucgmg Di Carlo, Francesco Telepsychiatry and other cutting edge technologies in Covid‐19 pandemic: bridging the distance in mental health assistance 2020-09-18 .txt text/plain 5256 272 42 Zohu et al (2020) reported that the decrease of hospital visits led to a reduction of routine psychiatric care for many patients with mental disorders in China, during the COVID-19 outbreak. Telemental health services can be particularly useful and appropriate for the support of both patients and health care workers during this pandemic, allowing providing assistance and care to those who need it by reducing the risk of infection. Patients with depressive disorders have been shown to benefit from TP, as reported by several studies in which patients' symptoms improved more in the telemental health group than in the traditional setting ones. Evidence from several studies has underlined that the use of TP for delivering mental healthcare services can improve symptoms of depression among older adults. During this pandemic period several Authors all over the world underlined the need to promote online mental health care services and encourage their use [13, 63, 64] . ./cache/cord-342841-b1rucgmg.txt ./txt/cord-342841-b1rucgmg.txt