Impact of COVID-19 pandemic in public mental health: an extensive narrative review
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2021
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Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
Navarro-Jiménez, Eduardo
Jiménez, Manuel
Hormeño-Holgado, Alberto
Martinez-Gonzalez, Marina Begoña
Benitez-Agudelo, Juan Camilo
Perez-Palencia, Natalia
Laborde-Cárdenas, Carmen Cecilia
Tornero-Aguilera, Jose Francisco
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has surprised health authorities
around the world producing a global health crisis. This research discusses the main psychosocial
stressors associated with COVID-19 in the literature, and the responses of global public mental health
services to these events. Thus, a consensus and critical review were performed using both primary
sources, such as scientific articles and secondary ones, such as bibliographic indexes, web pages, and
databases. The main search engines were PubMed, SciELO, and Google Scholar. The method was a
systematic literature review (SLR) of the available literature regarding mental health services during
the COVID-19 pandemic to conduct the present narrative review. Different stressors are identified in
this pandemic, from psychophysiological, confinement, to social and work. Depending on the level of
severity and the country of origin, various interventions have been applied that mark different ways
of returning to normality and preparing new interventions. This new stressor has a direct impact on
the mental health of the population, provoking governments, and health services to become more
flexible, innovate and adapt to the changing situation. The use of technology and mass media could
be an important tool in this aim. Independent of this, preparing the general population for possible
future waves of the pandemic is currently the best measure to mitigate more serious effects on the
mental health of the population.
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COVID-19, Pandemic, Stress, Anxiety, Quarantine