Interpersonal psychotherapy-based psychological intervention for patient suffering from COVID-19:A case report

• 作者: Chan-Chan Hu Dan-Dan Wang Jian-Bo Hu Jian-Bo Lai Jin-Wen Huang Jing-Kai Chen Man-Li Huang Ning Wei Shao-Hua Hu Shu-Guang Li Xiao-Yi Zhou Yi Xu Zhong Wang
• 来源期刊: 世界临床病例杂志
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: COVID-19 Psychological intervention Interpersonal therapy Interpersonal disputes Case report
• 年，卷（期）: sjlcblzz_2020,（23）
• 页码范围: 6064-6070
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: R74

摘要

BACKGROUND Novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)was first found in Wuhan,China,and it has rapidly spread worldwide since the end of 2019.There is an urgent need to treat the physical and psychological aspects of COVID-19.Interpersonal psychotherapy(IPT)-based psychological intervention is an evidence-based therapy for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.CASE SUMMARY This report describes a case of COVID-19 in a patient who transmitted the disease to his entire family.The patient received four sessions of IPT-based psychological intervention.We used the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Patient Health Questionnaire to measure depression level,and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Generalized Anxiety Disorder to measure anxiety among the patients.CONCLUSION This case shows that IPT-based therapy can reduce COVID-19 patient depression and anxiety and the advantage of IPT-based therapy.