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ReviewBMC family practice2021

Managing COVID-19 related distress in primary care: principles of assessment and management.

Laurence Astill Wright, Sam Gnanapragasam, Anthony J Downes, Jonathan I Bisson

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Review in BMC family practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Characteristics of People Who Do Not Disclose Positive COVID-19 Infection.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2023
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  8. Utilizing a Team Kinesiology Model to Support Rehabilitative Care in Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laurence Astill WrightDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK. laurencewright@doctors.org.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8324-1229
Sam GnanapragasamThe Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Anthony J DownesDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
Jonathan I BissonDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 will cause normal feelings of worry and stress and many of those who experience higher levels of distress will experience resolution of their symptoms as society returns to pre-COVID-19 functioning. Only a minority are likely to develop a psychiatric disorder. Certain individuals may be vulnerable to experiencing persisting symptoms, such as those with pre-existing comorbidity. Management approaches could centre around using collaborative approaches to provide and build on already existing socioeconomic support structures, the avoidance of over-medicalisation, watchful waiting and finally treating those who do meet the criteria for psychiatric diagnosis. Primary care clinicians are likely be the first healthcare point of contact for most COVID-19 related distress and it is important that they are able to provide evidence based and evidence informed responses, which includes social, psychological and pharmacological approaches. This expert opinion paper serves to summarise some approaches, based primarily on indirect extrapolation of evidence concerning the general management of psychological distress, in the absence of COVID-19 specific evidence, to assist primary care clinicians in their assessment and management of COVID-19 related distress.

Indexed as

Psychological DistressAnxietyCOVID-19DepressionHumansPrimary Health CareStress, PsychologicalSymptom AssessmentUncertaintyAnxietyCOVID-19DepressionPsychological DistressPTSDTraumatic Stress Symptoms

Identifiers

PMID33853537
PMCPMC8044505

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