The Need for Tele-Mental Health of Veterans during the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic (COVID-19)

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

1 Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Letter to the Editor

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