COVID-19 and mental health: A review of the existing literature

By Ravi Philip Rajkumar. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020

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Highlights • Subsyndromal mental health concerns are a common response to the COVID-19 outbreak.• These responses affect both the general public and healthcare workers.• Depressive and anxiety symptoms have been reported in 16–28% of subjects screened.• Novel methods of consultation, such as online services, can be helpful for these patients.• There is a need for further long-term research in this area, especially from other countries

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neurology

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students: A Global Perspective (2020, background): “Besides bringing to the fore many (existing) problems and challenges in the area of health, the COVID-19 pandemic has created all manner of unanticipated turbulence in society and the economy [7-10], like previous pandemics in history.”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “These stressors have led to high levels of generalized anxiety, depressive symptoms, psychological distress, sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Rajkumar, 2020; Wang et al., 2020).”
Validation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale in a US College Sample (2020, background): “A crisis in mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely approaching (Horesh and Brown 2020; Qiu et al. 2020, Rajkumar 2020; Xiang et al. 2020; Pakpour and Griffiths 2020; Lin 2020) for wide segments of the populations of many countries.”
COVID-19-Related Mental Health Effects in the Workplace: A Narrative Review (2020, background): “It is well established that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic could have an important psychological impact [9].”
The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults (2020, neutral): “Other coping responses have been more maladaptive, such as heightened anxiety and fear about COVID-19 and/or one's post-pandemic future (Rajkumar, 2020) and increased drug or alcohol use or breaking isolation rules (Clay & Parker, 2020).”
Effects of misinformation on COVID-19 individual responses and recommendations for resilience of disastrous consequences of misinformation (2020, background): “Rajkumar [56] and Xiao and Torok [86] suggested that amid an infectious disease pandemic, inaccurate or misinformation or exaggerated information can generate health anxiety.”
Prior drinking motives predict alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-sectional online survey among Belgian college students. (2020, background): “Following the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, most national authorities imposed lockdown measures, which generated mental health consequences (Brooks et al., 2020; Clay & Parker, 2020; Rajkumar, 2020).”
Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany (2020, background): “Further, many psychological studies are currently being conducted, mostly revolving around mental health issues (e.g., Fried et al., 2020; Rajkumar, 2020; Wang et al., 2020).”
Depression, Anxiety and Stress during COVID-19: Associations with Changes in Physical Activity, Sleep, Tobacco and Alcohol Use in Australian Adults (2020, background): “Nonetheless, given the psychological distress responses to COVID-19, [40] and the established benefits of physical activity on psychological distress [41,42], additional strategies to promote physical activity are needed.”
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Wellbeing at Universities in the United Kingdom: A Conceptual Analysis (2020, background): “A range of interventions have been posited thus far to combat the onset of poor mental health outcomes including the provision of online mental health resources, online provision of self-help and counseling services, and the deployment of online surveys to understand the prevalence of poor mental he”
The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective. (2020, background): “…ar tic le is in te nd ed so le ly fo r th e pe rs on al us e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. 2020; Rajkumar, 2020), raising the question of how effective treatments for patients suffering from panic and combined anxiety disorders can benefit from…”
COVID-19: Psychological flexibility, coping, mental health, and wellbeing in the UK during the pandemic (2020, neutral): “…et al., 2020; Odriozola-Gonz�alez, Planchuelo-G�omez, Irurtia-Mu~niz, & de Luis-García, 2020; Orgil�es, Morales, Delvecchio, Mazzeschi, & Espada, 2020; Ozamiz-Etxebarria, Dosil-Santamaria, Picaza-Gorrochategui, & Idoiaga-Mondragon, 2020; also see Rajkumar, 2020, for an early review).”
Lost in lockdown? COVID-19, social distancing, and mental health in Germany (2020, methodology): “There is widespread concern that the current COVID-19 outbreak is associated with increased psychological distress, mental illness, and suicide (Rajkumar 2020).”