Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented changes in the functioning of the health care system, which were connected with the occurrence of new challenges for both the health care system’s employees and for the patients. The purpose of the present article is to analyze the needs of persons with oncological diseases. Taking into account the multiple aspects of the term health, psychological, social, and existential needs of the patients were analyzed. This article is directed mainly at persons who remain in a direct therapeutic relation with a patient. It is to facilitate recognizing the needs of ill people and to increase sensitivity to the issue of maintaining or improving the well-being of patients which requires paying special attention to their psychological, social, and existential needs during the period of hindered access to the health care system. This systematic review takes advantage of quantitative and qualitative methods of text analysis with phenomenological analysis factored in. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the appearance of new problems in the population of oncological patients or it made the existing problems more severe. As a consequence, it made it significantly more difficult to meet their needs on various levels and sometimes it even made it impossible. It seems necessary to determine and introduce strategies to ensure that patients with oncological diseases have access to psychological and spiritual support in the period of the pandemic.

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“… Hobfoll et al (2021) identified five basic principles of psychosocial care in relation to people who experienced catastrophe, tragedy and loss.…”

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confidence: 99%

The needs of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic—psychosocial, ethical and spiritual aspects—systematic review

Zapała

Matecka

Żok

et al. 2022

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“…The literature has recognised the need for social capital interventions among such a population in need, which we believe is crucial to help refugees outside and forcibly displaced people inside Ukraine 6 18. For a community whose social structures and contacts have been disrupted by displacement, interventions to recreate social capital in the new setting—restoration of disrupted connections and/or facilitation of new ones—are critical.…”

Section: A Multilevel Explanation Of Refugee Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, the clear advantage of community interventions that foster social capital over traditional individually oriented interventions is that the former affords the possibility of promoting positive outcomes effectively with relatively few resources 21. As such, the cultivation of community social capital may help to decrease the need for individual psychological interventions 18. The work of Silove et al is consonant with what we propose: the authors suggest that ‘a stepped care model in which refugees first attend social programmes which address general levels of distress, while at the same time those with more severe mental health problems are identified, offers an integrated approach to maximising resources and a non-stigmatising referral pathway to specialist services’ 16…”

Section: Multilevel Interventions To Improve Refugee Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond

Villalonga-Olives

Wind

Smith³

et al. 2023

J Epidemiol Community Health

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“…It has evolved to become the flagship early intervention programme for disaster survivors to mend their recovery from the immediate or short-term aftermath of trauma. The PFA frameworks are proliferating and are underpinned on five essential principles: (1) safety, (2) calming, (3) hope, (4) self- and community efficacy, and (5) social connectedness [19] .…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond

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Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence

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The needs of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic—psychosocial, ethical and spiritual aspects—systematic review

The needs of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic—psychosocial, ethical and spiritual aspects—systematic review

Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond

Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond

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