The role of mental health to overcoming the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic

Abstract

The current coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the order of social life; the efforts made to tackle this pandemic have sometimes raised various obstacles related to norms, ethics and culture. An increased risk of COVID-19-associated mental disorders is found in many communities, causing excessive emotional reactions such as feelings of pressure, leading to unhealthy behavior. This situation confirms that health care providers have a key role in dealing with emotional disturbances that occur as a form of pandemic response. Public health emergencies can affect the health, safety and well-being of every individual as well as the social stigma in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Various mental health studies related to disasters have determined that emotional distress is widespread and can also be found in populations related to COVID-19. There are various kinds of risk factors that have an impact on health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, including social isolation, lack of support, and concerns about safety of family members. We included published, observational and experimental studies that reported the mental health effects on health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts made by policy holders, especially in the health sector, have greatly contributed to the response to the pandemic, but not all of them can run smoothly, several steps and policies in the health sector must involve many stakeholders in order to realize the expected efforts. The main purpose of this review paper was to not only focus on health workers, but include the communities in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experiencia emocional de mujeres en pandemia y teletrabajo, un acercamiento desde el social instalado

“…nea, el miedo al contagio, las consecuencias del distanciamiento social y los efectos económicos amenazan necesidades psicológicas básicas como la seguridad, la necesidad de amor, junto con problemas de salud mental tales como ansiedad, depresión, entre otros (Antičević, 2021), donde la angustia financiera fue un correlato clave de una peor salud mental de las personas (Khaffaf y Madalah, 2021). Además, el riesgo de trastornos mentales asociados al covid-19 ha provocado reacciones emocionales excesivas y sentimientos de presión conducentes a comportamientos poco saludables (Dania y Novziransyah, 2021).…”

Food literacy as a resilience factor in response to health-related uncertainty

“…Health and life-threatening events increase the probability of changing our habits (G€ uney and Sang€ un, 2021), thus leading to instinctive and intuitive emotional reactions (Slovic and Peters, 2006). More specifically, during the Covid-19 outbreak people have to live under constant pressure, fearing for their lives (Mertens et al, 2020), feeling anxiety, depression or distress (Choi et al, 2020;G omez-Salgado et al, 2020;Lakhan et al, 2020), anger, insecurity, confusion or even emotional isolation (Dania and Novziransyah, 2021;Gundersen et al, 2021;Pereira and Oliveira, 2020;Smith et al, 2021). Everyday activities, such as shopping, carry more risk than before (Szymkowiak et al, 2020).…”

“…, 2020; Lakhan et al. , 2020), anger, insecurity, confusion or even emotional isolation (Dania and Novziransyah, 2021; Gundersen et al. , 2021; Pereira and Oliveira, 2020; Smith et al.…”