The emotional impact of Coronavirus 2019-nCoV (new Coronavirus disease)

By Carlos Kennedy Tavares Lima, Poliana Moreira de Medeiros Carvalho, Igor de Araújo Araruna Silva Lima, José Victor Alexandre de Oliveira Nunes, Jeferson Steves Saraiva, Ricardo Inácio de Souza, Cláudio Gleidiston Lima Da Silva, M. Neto. Psychiatry Research, 2020

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Background : A novel form of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan has created a confused and rapidly evolving situation. In this situational framework, patients and front-line healthcare workers are vulnerable. Method : Studies were identified using large-circulation international journals found in two electronic databases: Scopus and Embase. Results : Populations of patients that may require tailored interventions are older adults and international migrant workers. Older adults with psychiatric conditions may be experiencing further distress. The COVID-19 epidemic has underscored potential gaps in mental health services during emergencies. Conclusions : Most health professionals working in isolation units and hospitals do not receive any training for providing mental health care. Fear seems more certainly a consequence of mass quarantine.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Neurology

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Citations in the corpus

• The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, background): “The social and economic consequences of COVID-19 constitute a stressor capable of causing chronic anxiety (Holmes et al., 2020), particularly in communities where death rates are high (Lima et al., 2020), and for populations with pre-existing health issues (Brooks et al., 2020).”
• Unprecedented disruption of lives and work: Health, distress and life satisfaction of working adults in China one month into the COVID-19 outbreak (2020, neutral): “However, those measures have disrupted people's jobs and lives immensely and hence may have important implications for their health and wellbeing (Lima et al., 2020) .”
• COVID-19 and mental health: A review of the existing literature (2020, background): “Finally, a brief review paper (Lima et al., 2020) highlighted the role of anxiety as the dominant emotional response to an outbreak, and the need for adequate training of healthcare personnel and the optimal use of technological advances to deliver mental health care.”
• The mental health of healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review (2020, background): “” Hospitals are “overwhelmed,” and there are many concerns about people’s daily lives [10].”
• Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 (2020, positive): “Most of the cases, clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health social workers are not encouraged to enter isolation wards or confinement centers under strict infection control measures [10,122].”
• Gender-related differences in the psychological impact of confinement as a consequence of COVID-19 in Spain (2020, background): “…levels of stress and anxiety, insomnia and irritability and loneliness (Balluerka et al. 2020; Brooks, et al., 2020; Bu, Steptoe, & Fancourt, 2020; González-Sanguino et al., 2020; Ko et al. 2020; Li et al., 2020; Lima et al., 2020; Wang et al. 2020a; Romero et al. 2020; Shelef & Zalsman, 2020).”