Perspectives of patients, family members, health professionals and the public on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
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Gardiner, EvangelineBaumgart, Amanda
Tong, Allison
Elliott, Julian H
Azevedo, Luciano Cesar
Bersten, Andrew
Cervantes, Lilia
Chew, Derek P
Cho, Yeoungjee
Crowe, Sally
Douglas, Ivor S
Evangelidis, Nicole
Flemyng, Ella
Horby, Peter
Howell, Martin
Lee, Jaehee
Lorca, Eduardo
Lynch, Deena
Marshall, John C
Gonzalez, Andrea Matus
McKenzie, Anne
Manera, Karine
Mehta, Sangeeta
Mer, Mervyn
Morris, Andrew Conway
Nseir, Saad
Povoa, Pedro
Reid, Mark
Sakr, Yasser
Shen, Ning
Smyth, Alan R
Snelling, Tom
Strippoli, Giovanni F M
Teixeira-Pinto, Armando
Torres, Antoni
Viecelli, Andrea K
Webb, Steve
Williamson, Paula R
Woc-Colburn, Laila
Zhang, Junhua
Craig, Jonathan C
Abstract
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 ...
See moreBACKGROUND: 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.
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See moreBACKGROUND: 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.
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2022Funding information
Wellcome Trust
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