Riyadh Newspaper | Research: The Corona pandemic witnessed a bunch of psychological issues as a result of communication websites

The actions of the fourteenth symposium on psychopharmacology, organized by the Erada and Psychological Well being Complicated in Riyadh, kicked off this night, Wednesday, in cooperation with the Afaq Well being Schooling Platform, and will probably be held remotely with the participation of psychological well being specialists.

At first of the symposium, the assistant govt director of the advanced for therapeutic companies, Dr. Hassan bin Rafea Al-Shehri, gave a speech by which he acknowledged that the symposium in its earlier periods made suggestions that had a constructive impression on the event of psychopharmacology within the Kingdom, because of the scientific worth it enjoys amongst different scientific packages, which is in keeping with With the aspirations of the advanced to proceed growing the talents of pharmacists and different specialties within the discipline of psychological well being, in a manner that contributes to enhancing the extent of efficiency when offering care to psychiatric and addictive sufferers.

Dr. Al-Shehri identified that the advanced obtained the programmatic accreditation for the Medical Pharmacy Diploma from the Saudi Fee for Well being Specialties for a interval of 4 years, because of the advanced’s human competencies and tools.

After that, the actions of the primary day of the symposium had been launched beneath the chairmanship of Dr. Khaled Saad, and its scientific program included quite a lot of working papers, the place Dr. Abdul-Hadi Al-Habbad spoke first about the best way of social considering for autistic kids, and the pharmacist Alaa Al-Quait make clear the pharmacist residency program for Irada Complicated in Riyadh, which is represented in: Medical pharmacy fellowship program and programs obtainable on this discipline and the position of the scientific pharmacist that revolves round offering direct affected person care, fixing drug-related issues, conducting medical analysis, drug training, offering medical recommendation to the affected person, and persevering with medical training.

Pharmacist Ban Al-Dosari spoke concerning the drug assessment system within the advanced, and drug training for sufferers and their households, which contributes to the security of drug use, adherence to the prescription, and discount of drug dangers. Lastly, Dr. Mahdi Al-Enezi offered a working paper by which he talked concerning the impression of social networking websites on psychological well being, as he talked about that social networking websites trigger quite a lot of psychological issues, together with melancholy, anxiousness, isolation, introversion, lack of self-confidence, and the management of detrimental emotions of frustration and envy, Lack of contact with actuality, and having a sort of dysfunction known as “FOMO”, which is the worry of not speaking with others or of shedding a part of communication with them, and sleep and consuming issues, along with these websites could also be a reason behind dependancy.

And he indicated {that a} Saudi survey was carried out in the course of the Corona pandemic on quite a lot of volunteers from 16 to 60 years previous, about probably the most psychological issues attributable to social networking websites, throughout which many psychological measures had been utilized, and the examine confirmed that anxiousness got here in first place with a proportion of 47.8%, and melancholy may be very near it with a proportion of 47.5%, then introversion and isolation from society amounted to 46.4%, and the examine additionally proved that greater than 83% of the individuals within the examine used social media constantly in the course of the pandemic and thus uncovered them drastically to varied data from completely different sources, a few of which Untrusted.