Perspectives of patients, family members, health professionals and the public on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has seen a global surge in anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stress.

AIMS: This study aimed to describe the perspectives of patients with COVID-19, their family, health professionals, and the general public on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

METHODS: A secondary thematic analysis was conducted using data from the COVID-19 COS project. We extracted data on the perceived causes and impact of COVID-19 on mental health from an international survey and seven online consensus workshops.

RESULTS: We identified four themes (with subthemes in parenthesis): anxiety amidst uncertainty (always on high alert, ebb and flow of recovery); anguish of a threatened future (intense frustration of a changed normality, facing loss of livelihood, trauma of ventilation, a troubling prognosis, confronting death); bearing responsibility for transmission (fear of spreading COVID-19 in public; overwhelming guilt of infecting a loved one); and suffering in isolation (severe solitude of quarantine, sick and alone, separation exacerbating grief).

CONCLUSION: We found that the unpredictability of COVID-19, the fear of long-term health consequences, burden of guilt, and suffering in isolation profoundly impacted mental health. Clinical and public health interventions are needed to manage the psychological consequences arising from this pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England) - 31(2022), 4 vom: 05. Aug., Seite 524-533

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gardiner, Evangeline [VerfasserIn]
Baumgart, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Tong, Allison [VerfasserIn]
Elliott, Julian H [VerfasserIn]
Azevedo, Luciano Cesar [VerfasserIn]
Bersten, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes, Lilia [VerfasserIn]
Chew, Derek P [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Yeoungjee [VerfasserIn]
Crowe, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Douglas, Ivor S [VerfasserIn]
Evangelidis, Nicole [VerfasserIn]
Flemyng, Ella [VerfasserIn]
Horby, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Howell, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jaehee [VerfasserIn]
Lorca, Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Lynch, Deena [VerfasserIn]
Marshall, John C [VerfasserIn]
Gonzalez, Andrea Matus [VerfasserIn]
McKenzie, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Manera, Karine [VerfasserIn]
Mehta, Sangeeta [VerfasserIn]
Mer, Mervyn [VerfasserIn]
Morris, Andrew Conway [VerfasserIn]
Nseir, Saad [VerfasserIn]
Povoa, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
Reid, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Sakr, Yasser [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Smyth, Alan R [VerfasserIn]
Snelling, Tom [VerfasserIn]
Strippoli, Giovanni F M [VerfasserIn]
Teixeira-Pinto, Armando [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Antoni [VerfasserIn]
Viecelli, Andrea K [VerfasserIn]
Webb, Steve [VerfasserIn]
Williamson, Paula R [VerfasserIn]
Woc-Colburn, Laila [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Junhua [VerfasserIn]
Craig, Jonathan C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety
COVID-19
Depression
Journal Article
PTSD
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 02.08.2022

Date Revised 02.08.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/09638237.2021.2022637

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335186971