Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Challenges forPost-traumatic Interventions

• 作者: Mustafa Ali Khalaf
• 来源期刊: 心理学研究:英文版
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PSYCHOLOGICAL consequences POST-TRAUMATIC interventions PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
• 年，卷（期）: psyresearch_2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 24-29
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: R51

摘要

This article reviewed the psychological consequences of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 and the challenges that face post-traumatic interventions.The outbreak of the virus,the daily deaths and quarantine procedures resulted in several mental health problems and the need for psychological interventions was increasingly highlighted in different studies.Not only the patients but those who are in the frontline like physicians and nurses need psychological services as well.The infected people suffer from fear of death,similarly the quarantined people are afraid of infection and suffer also from social isolation,loneliness,anger,depression,anxiety and stress.The most common troubles resulted from the outbreak of COVID-19 are sleep disorders,overprotection measures,feeling helplessness,emotional problems,worry about health,sadness and frustration.There are different challenges of post-traumatic interventions,take for example,shortage of professional psychiatrists and experienced psychologists,lack of training on psychological skills to deal with patients’anxiety,panic,and other emotional problems and unwillingness to be quarantined and lack of cooperation in remedial measures.Future studies should adopt interview and self-reported questionnaire to get a deeper insight into the Psychiatric and Psychological disorders associated with the epidemic.Finally,post-traumatic interventions should focus on improving coping strategies and reducing mental health problems.