Stop COVID Deaths Webinar #127 “PARA! GUSTO KO BUMABA! It’s Okay not to feel Okay”

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UP Manila NIH National Telehealth Center and in cooperation with
UP Philippine General Hospital
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Webinar #127
November 25, 2022 (Friday) 12nn
“PARA! GUSTO KO BUMABA! It’s Okay not to feel Okay”

Presenter:
DR. JOSEFINA LY-USON
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, UP-PGH
Chair, UP College of Medicine Student Resiliency and Wellness Committee
Adviser, PGH Wellness Program

Reactors:
DR. NOEL D.J. ATIENZA
Dean, College of Medicine
San Beda University

DR. TERESITA CADIZ-BRION
Former Dean, College of Public Health
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
Synthesis and Closing Remarks:

DR. STELLA MARIE L. JOSE
Deputy Director for Health Operations
UP Philippine General Hospital

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Webinar #127
November 25, 2022
“PARA! GUSTO KO BUMABA! It’s Okay not to feel Okay”

How have you been during the pandemic? “Kamusta?” Have you been feeling okay? Or are you harboring very negative thoughts and an inability to see the future? Are you irritable or even agitated? Are you sleeping well, eating well, living well? Is this the first time in your life you have felt “not okay”?

If it is the first time you are experiencing these thoughts and feelings, it is okay. “PARA! GUSTO KO BUMABA! It’s Okay not to feel Okay”, will tackle stress and the mental health and well-being of health workers and students of the health professions: doctors, nurses and allied medical professions.

WHO reports that at least a quarter of health and care workers surveyed reported anxiety, depression and burnout symptoms. It is reported that  23 to 46 percent of health and care workers reported symptoms of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic and 20 to 37 percent experienced depressive symptoms. Burnout among health and care workers during the pandemic ranged from 41 to 52 percent in pooled estimates.

While control methods for COVID-19 have become increasingly definitive and reliable, we are less confident about how we are approaching the parallel pandemic of mental health problems that have arisen due to multiple stressors at home, in the community, in the workplace, and in schools.

There are initiatives that are promising. In this webinar of STOP C.O.V.I.D. DEATHS, Dr. Josefina Ly-Uson, Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the UP Philippine General Hospital, will discuss the Wellness program of PGH and the UP College of Medicine. We will also hear from Dr. Noel D.J. Atienza, Dean of the College of Medicine at the San Beda University, on efforts being undertaken in San Beda College of Medicine and Dr. Teresita Cadiz-Brion, Former Dean of the College of Public Health at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), will share the PLM experience.

Join us as we learn with these innovators in mental health and wellness programs for students, frontliners and their families. Together, we can STOP C.O.V.I.D. DEATHS!