{"id":26922,"date":"2021-01-27T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26922"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:32:57","slug":"ono-researcher-describes-the-mental-health-pandemic-a-side-effect-of-the-corona-virus-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/ono-researcher-describes-the-mental-health-pandemic-a-side-effect-of-the-corona-virus-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Researcher Describes the \u201cMental health pandemic\u201d a Side Effect of the Corona Virus Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_26906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26906\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/Talya-Miron-Shatz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Talya-Miron-Shatz.png 232w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Talya-Miron-Shatz-218x218.png 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talya Miron Shatz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Jerusalem Post article raises the controversial question: Are depression, stress and an expected rise in suicides more severe than the COVID-19 disease itself? To address this issue, the paper quoted Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz, founding director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at Ono Academic College.\u00a0 Miron-Shatz discussed a German study showed that periods of prolonged unemployment for men could have a long-lasting emotional impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study found that even two years after some unemployed people found work, their level of happiness was lower than others in the same job,\u201d Miron-Shatz said, noting that the shift came because the individuals said they had lost trust in their abilities to provide for their families.<\/p>\n<p>Miron-Shatz also noted that the world\u2019s obsession with reviewing the number of people dead from the pandemic, something she said has become a \u201cnational sport\u201d in Israel, serves as a constant and unhealthy reminder \u201cof our morbidity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-science\/what-impact-does-the-coronavirus-pandemic-have-on-mental-health-636952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-science\/what-impact-does-the-coronavirus-pandemic-have-on-mental-health-636952<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jerusalem Post article raises the controversial question: Are depression, stress and an expected rise in suicides more severe than the COVID-19 disease itself? To address this issue, the paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":151,"template":"","class_list":["post-26922","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}