Investigating the effectiveness of psychological interventions in response to stress, anxiety, and depression in coronavirus disease 2019 patients: A systematic review
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2 Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Life Style Institute, Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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چکیده
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) has caused different kinds of psychological consequences.Identifying and providing psychological plans and protocols can be effective in promoting patients’mental health. The study was conducted to investigate the effect of psychological interventions inresponse to stress, anxiety, and depression in COVID‑19 patients. The present study was performedbased on a systematic review. The studies were done by using different combinations of keywordsin databases such as Science Direct, ProQuest, PubMed, and Google scholar search engines andin Persian databases such as Magiran, SID, Iranmedex from July 25 to September 7, 2020. Outof 4533 articles that were found after extensive search, 9 articles were evaluated and qualitativelyanalyzed for data extraction with the 2010 consort checklist. The final articles were from differentcountries of China, the USA, France, Italy, and Iran and were about COVID‑19 patients and theirhealth‑care providers. Interventions ranged from relaxation, music therapy to mental health andextensive psychological skills including adaptation methods, mindfulness and self‑care, and crisismanagement. Anxiety was the highest and then stress and depression were the next indicators. Theresults showed a positive effect of these interventions on stress, anxiety, depression, and even thequality of life, sleep and family and child function. The number of studies in this field is increasing. Wesee a variety of psychological and educational interventions every day. It is hoped that by designingstandard protocols for psychological intervention, effective steps can be taken to improve the mentalhealth of patients and health‑care providers.