SynthesisAsian journal of psychiatry2020
COVID-19 and mental health: A review of the existing literature.
Synthesis in Asian journal of psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04646642 (Psychological Health, Coping Strategies and Preferences of David Grant USAF Medical Center COVID-19 Deployers), which is not on this map. Cited by 1,450 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Psychological Health, Coping Strategies and Preferences of David Grant USAF Medical Center COVID-19 Deployers: A Critical Needs Assessment
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1,450 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 3,703 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis affecting several nations, with over 720,000 cases and 33,000 confirmed deaths reported to date. Such widespread outbreaks are associated with adverse mental health consequences. Keeping this in mind, existing literature on the COVID-19 outbreak pertinent to mental health was retrieved via a literature search of the PubMed database. Published articles were classified according to their overall themes and summarized. Preliminary evidence suggests that symptoms of anxiety and depression (16-28%) and self-reported stress (8%) are common psychological reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, and may be associated with disturbed sleep. A number of individual and structural variables moderate this risk. In planning services for such populations, both the needs of the concerned people and the necessary preventive guidelines must be taken into account. The available literature has emerged from only a few of the affected countries, and may not reflect the experience of persons living in other parts of the world. In conclusion, subsyndromal mental health problems are a common response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a need for more representative research from other affected countries, particularly in vulnerable populations.
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