Perspectives of patients, family members, health professionals and the public on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
Journal: Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England)
Volume: 31
Issue: 4
Year of Publication: 2022
Affiliated Institutions:
Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Cochrane Australia, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, Brazil.
College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, United States.
Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
Crowe Associates Ltd, Oxon, UK.
Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care, School of Medicine Denver, Denver Health and University of Colorado Anschutz, United States.
Editorial and Methods Department, Cochrane, London, UK.
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Jonze Society, Brisbane, Australia.
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia.
Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Department of Medicine, Divisions of Critical Care and Pulmonology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Critical Care Centre, CHU Lille, and Lille University, Lille, France.
Nova Medical School, CHRC, Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Sao Francisco Xavier Hospital, CHLO, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Evidence Based Child Health Group, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Department of Pulmonology, Respiratory Intitute, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona (UB), CIBERES, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Department of Infectious Diseases, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Evidence-based Medicine center, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Abstract summary
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has seen a global surge in anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and stress.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.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.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).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.
Authors & Co-authors:
Gardiner Evangeline E
Baumgart Amanda A
Tong Allison A
Elliott Julian H JH
Azevedo Luciano Cesar LC
Bersten Andrew A
Cervantes Lilia L
Chew Derek P DP
Cho Yeoungjee Y
Crowe Sally S
Douglas Ivor S IS
Evangelidis Nicole N
Flemyng Ella E
Horby Peter P
Howell Martin M
Lee Jaehee J
Lorca Eduardo E
Lynch Deena D
Marshall John C JC
Gonzalez Andrea Matus AM
McKenzie Anne A
Manera Karine K
Mehta Sangeeta S
Mer Mervyn M
Morris Andrew Conway AC
Nseir Saad S
Povoa Pedro P
Reid Mark M
Sakr Yasser Y
Shen Ning N
Smyth Alan R AR
Snelling Tom T
Strippoli Giovanni F M GFM
Teixeira-Pinto Armando A
Torres Antoni A
Viecelli Andrea K AK
Webb Steve S
Williamson Paula R PR
Woc-Colburn Laila L
Zhang Junhua J
Craig Jonathan C JC
Study Outcome
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