The COVID-19 disaster and mental health—assessing, responding and recovering
| Autor: | Johan Bilsen, Jutta Lindert, M Jakubauskiene |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Mental Health and Wellbeing research group, Public Health Sciences |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Population MEDLINE Disease mental health impacts assessment COVID-19 Disasters Health care Pandemic medicine Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00860 AcademicSubjects/SOC01210 Psychiatry education Aged education.field_of_study business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mental health Disadvantaged Suicide Mental Health Supplement Papers Female business Psychology Psychosocial AcademicSubjects/SOC02610 |
| Zdroj: | The European Journal of Public Health European journal of public health, Oxford : Oxford university press, 2021, vol. 31, suppl. 4, p. iv31-iv35 |
| ISSN: | 1464-360X 1101-1262 |
| Popis: | The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is a disaster that has impacted lives globally. The purpose of this paper is to understand the linkage between COVID-19 and its impact on mental health. To reach this aim, we reviewed the literature on COVID-19 and mental conditions. Based on the literature, we identified COVID-19 as an unexpected, large-scale event that disrupted communities and caused death, destruction and trauma which upended normal existence. For mental conditions, effects of the pandemic are likely to manifest in different ways: development of symptoms in previously healthy individuals, new episodes in those with predisposition to mental disorders and development of symptoms that do not meet diagnostic criteria. The level of mental health problems varies depending on the stage of the pandemic, country, population groups and types of conditions. This also applies to the level of suicide, although suicides do not seem to have increased during the pandemic. Yet, we identified a net of factors contributing to mental conditions, in general. These factors include demographic factors (e.g. female gender, younger and older age), social factors (e.g. economically disadvantaged), mental factors (e.g. pre-existing mental conditions) and relationship factors (e.g. stressful relationship, lack of relationships). Additionally, we identified COVID-19-specific factors such as threat to own life and threat to life of loved ones, containment measures and interruption of services and social life. We further explored potentially additional suicide-related risk factors. Regardless of differences, health care and psychosocial systems were in many countries not prepared to respond to a viral disaster. Viral disaster requires that responses not only include direct care but also responses to populations that may need support due to known determinants of mental health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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