Alternative Mental Health Therapies in Prolonged Lockdowns: Narratives from COVID-19

Radanliev, Petar; Roure, David C. De

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4330422

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Alternative Mental Health Therapies in Prolonged Lockdowns: Narratives from COVID-19

16 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2023

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Petar Radanliev

University of Oxford - Department of Computer Science

David C. De Roure

University of Oxford - Department of Engineering Science

Date Written: January 19, 2023

Abstract

Objective: Identify and review alternative (home-based) therapies for prolonged lockdowns.

Method: Interdisciplinary study using multi-method approach – case study, action research, grounded theory. Only secondary data has been used in this study.

Results: Epistemological framework based on a set of digital humanities tools. The set of tools are based on publicly available, open access technological solutions, enabling generalisability of the findings.

Conclusions: Alternative therapies can be integrated in healthcare systems as home-based solutions operating on low-cost technologies.

Note:
Funding Information: This work was supported by the UK EPSRC [grant number: EP/S035362/1] and by the Cisco Research Centre [grant number CG1525381].

Declaration of Interests: None to declare.

Keywords: Alternative therapies; Art Therapy; Disease X; Covid-19

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Radanliev, Petar and Roure, David C. De, Alternative Mental Health Therapies in Prolonged Lockdowns: Narratives from COVID-19 (January 19, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4330422 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4330422