Yujuan Choy, MD

Strategies for educating patients on COVID-19 transmission and epidemiology, as well as dispelling myths

The pandemic has brought into focus treatment barriers, disruption in care, and possibly negative outcomes in the mental health of university students. To better understand the specific challenges of out-of-state students, the authors conducted an anonymous national survey of college psychiatrists.

A constellation of factors contributes to heightened anxiety symptoms associated with the pandemic. The author offers simple steps to help patients alleviate stress.

Yujuan Choy, MD, Chief Psychiatrist at UC Irvine Counseling Center, provides tips for working with patients whose anxiety symptoms disrupt their quality of life.

Within days of the COVID-19 pandemic, students scattered from campus to locations around the country, and their psychiatric care was interrupted at a time when they needed support more than ever.

Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia is a chronic, debilitating psychiatric illness that affects about 4.7% of the general US population.