Open AccessHealth professionals directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with Covid-19
Author(s) -
Modesto Leite Rolim Neto
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
avanços em medicina/avanços em medicina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2763-6232
pISSN - 2676-0347
DOI - 10.52329/avanmed.40
Subject(s) - mental health , relevance (law) , medline , medicine , inclusion (mineral) , health care , covid-19 , psychiatry , nursing , health professionals , psychology , disease , social psychology , pathology , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics , economic growth
Health professionals directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care ofpatients with COVID-19 develop the insertion of psychic spaces for the installation of painand psychological suffering and other mental health symptoms.Objective: Carry out a analysis of the psychiatric repercussions based people on the frontlines: Nurses, doctors, healthcare workers, and other medical professionals who are testingfor and treating patients with COVID-19Method: This current literature review has utilized literature reserves and scientific searchengines MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science. The search terms included, “SARS-CoV-2”,“Mental Health,” “psychiatric repercussions”, "People on the front lines " “COVID-19”. Specificchoices of unique papers from each of the searches were identified. The inclusion criteriawere relevance and availability of full-text. Papers were excluded on the basis of relevanceand non-availability of full-text. Papers were identified in the general literature reserve aspertinent to the search terms.Results: Work-related stress is a potential cause of concern for health professionals.Conclusion: Evidence highlights some timely mental health care that needs to be developedurgently, such as: use of psychotropic drugs; specialized psychiatric treatments andappropriate mental; and health status updates for professionals in the Intensive Care Unit;psychological counseling; and psychotherapy techniques such as those based on the stressadaptation model.