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Mental health services for infectious disease outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review.
Synthesis in Psychological medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04949061 (Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress Among COVID-19 Survivors), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress Among COVID-19 Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Communication to promote and support physical distancing for COVID-19 prevention and control: a rapid reviewThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- The Usability, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of Digital Mental Health Services in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review, Systematic Review, and Meta-analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Pooled it
- Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence of and risk factors associated with depression, anxiety and insomnia in infectious diseases, including COVID-19: a call to action.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Student support systems for undergraduate medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic narrative review of the literature.BMC medical education · 2021Pooled it
- Burden of mental and substance use disorders in China and its provinces, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Visualization Analysis of Acupuncture for the Treatment of Insomnia: A Scoping Literature Review Based on an International Database.Medical acupuncture · 2025Review
- Usability, acceptance, and the role of realism in virtual humans for breathing exercise training.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Innovative Regional Services and Heterogeneous Communication Channels: Results from the Nationwide German egePan Project for Pandemic Management.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Integrating mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) into infectious disease outbreak response: Results of an expert consensus study.IJID regions · 2024Article
- What Chinese Women Seek in Mental Health Apps: Insights from AnalyzingHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Transcending technology boundaries and maintaining sense of community in virtual mental health peer support: a qualitative study with service providers and users.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Tele-mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review of the literature focused on technical aspects and challenges.Health science reports · 2023Article
- The pandemic's unseen wounds: COVID-19's profound effects on mental health.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Review
- Implementing Psychological First Aid for Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Feasibility Study of the ICARE Model.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- Work-life boundary management of peer support workers when engaging in virtual mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative case study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of psychological first aid in infectious disease pandemics: An overview of systematic reviews.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Review
- Addressing psychosomatic issues after lifting the COVID-19 policy in China: A wake-up call.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mental health survey among front-line medical workers after 2 years of supporting COVID-19 efforts in Hubei Province.PloS one · 2023Article
- Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in people with post COVID-19 condition: study protocol for a multiple baseline n-of-1 trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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22 authors at 10 institutions in 9 countries.
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Abstract
The upsurge in the number of people affected by the COVID-19 is likely to lead to increased rates of emotional trauma and mental illnesses. This article systematically reviewed the available data on the benefits of interventions to reduce adverse mental health sequelae of infectious disease outbreaks, and to offer guidance for mental health service responses to infectious disease pandemic. PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, WHO Global Research Database on infectious disease, and the preprint server medRxiv were searched. Of 4278 reports identified, 32 were included in this review. Most articles of psychological interventions were implemented to address the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Ebola, SARS, and MERS for multiple vulnerable populations. Increasing mental health literacy of the public is vital to prevent the mental health crisis under the COVID-19 pandemic. Group-based cognitive behavioral therapy, psychological first aid, community-based psychosocial arts program, and other culturally adapted interventions were reported as being effective against the mental health impacts of COVID-19, Ebola, and SARS. Culturally-adapted, cost-effective, and accessible strategies integrated into the public health emergency response and established medical systems at the local and national levels are likely to be an effective option to enhance mental health response capacity for the current and for future infectious disease outbreaks. Tele-mental healthcare services were key central components of stepped care for both infectious disease outbreak management and routine support; however, the usefulness and limitations of remote health delivery should also be recognized.
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