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Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review

BACKGROUND: Acute disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic cause a high burden of psychological distress in people worldwide. Interventions to enable people to better cope with such distress should be based on the best available evidence. We therefore performed a scoping review to systematica...

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Autores principales: Kunzler, Angela M., Stoffers-Winterling, Jutta, Stoll, Marlene, Mancini, Alexander L., Lehmann, Sophie, Blessin, Manpreet, Gilan, Donya, Helmreich, Isabella, Hufert, Frank, Lieb, Klaus
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33534786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244748
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author Kunzler, Angela M.
Stoffers-Winterling, Jutta
Stoll, Marlene
Mancini, Alexander L.
Lehmann, Sophie
Blessin, Manpreet
Gilan, Donya
Helmreich, Isabella
Hufert, Frank
Lieb, Klaus
author_facet Kunzler, Angela M.
Stoffers-Winterling, Jutta
Stoll, Marlene
Mancini, Alexander L.
Lehmann, Sophie
Blessin, Manpreet
Gilan, Donya
Helmreich, Isabella
Hufert, Frank
Lieb, Klaus
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description BACKGROUND: Acute disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic cause a high burden of psychological distress in people worldwide. Interventions to enable people to better cope with such distress should be based on the best available evidence. We therefore performed a scoping review to systematically identify and summarize the available literature of interventions that target the distress of people in the face of highly contagious disease outbreaks. METHODS: MEDLINE, Cochrane CENTRAL, Web of Science (January 2000 to May 7, 2020), and reference lists were systematically searched and screened by two independent reviewers. Quantitative and qualitative studies investigating the effects of psychological interventions before, during, and after outbreaks of highly contagious emerging infectious diseases, such as SARS, MERS, Ebola, or COVID-19 were included. Study effects were grouped (e.g. for healthcare professionals, community members, people at risk) and intervention contents at the individual and organizational level summarized. We assessed the level of evidence using a modified scheme from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. RESULTS: Of 4030 records found, 19 studies were included (two RCTs). Most interventions were delivered during-exposure and face-to-face, focused on healthcare workers and crisis personnel, and combined psychoeducation with training of coping strategies. Based on two high-quality studies, beneficial effects were reported for resilience factors (e.g. positive cognitive appraisal) and professional attitudes of healthcare workers, with mixed findings for mental health (e.g. depression). Across all studies, there was positive qualitative feedback from participants and facilitators. We identified seven ongoing studies mostly using online- and mobile-based deliveries. CONCLUSIONS: There is preliminary evidence for beneficial effects of interventions to enable people to better cope with the distress of highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks. Besides the need for more high-quality studies, the summarized evidence may inform decision makers to plan interventions during the current pandemic and to develop pandemic preparedness plans.
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spelling pubmed-78576352021-02-11 Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review Kunzler, Angela M. Stoffers-Winterling, Jutta Stoll, Marlene Mancini, Alexander L. Lehmann, Sophie Blessin, Manpreet Gilan, Donya Helmreich, Isabella Hufert, Frank Lieb, Klaus PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Acute disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic cause a high burden of psychological distress in people worldwide. Interventions to enable people to better cope with such distress should be based on the best available evidence. We therefore performed a scoping review to systematically identify and summarize the available literature of interventions that target the distress of people in the face of highly contagious disease outbreaks. METHODS: MEDLINE, Cochrane CENTRAL, Web of Science (January 2000 to May 7, 2020), and reference lists were systematically searched and screened by two independent reviewers. Quantitative and qualitative studies investigating the effects of psychological interventions before, during, and after outbreaks of highly contagious emerging infectious diseases, such as SARS, MERS, Ebola, or COVID-19 were included. Study effects were grouped (e.g. for healthcare professionals, community members, people at risk) and intervention contents at the individual and organizational level summarized. We assessed the level of evidence using a modified scheme from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. RESULTS: Of 4030 records found, 19 studies were included (two RCTs). Most interventions were delivered during-exposure and face-to-face, focused on healthcare workers and crisis personnel, and combined psychoeducation with training of coping strategies. Based on two high-quality studies, beneficial effects were reported for resilience factors (e.g. positive cognitive appraisal) and professional attitudes of healthcare workers, with mixed findings for mental health (e.g. depression). Across all studies, there was positive qualitative feedback from participants and facilitators. We identified seven ongoing studies mostly using online- and mobile-based deliveries. CONCLUSIONS: There is preliminary evidence for beneficial effects of interventions to enable people to better cope with the distress of highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks. Besides the need for more high-quality studies, the summarized evidence may inform decision makers to plan interventions during the current pandemic and to develop pandemic preparedness plans. Public Library of Science 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7857635/ /pubmed/33534786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244748 Text en © 2021 Kunzler et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kunzler, Angela M.
Stoffers-Winterling, Jutta
Stoll, Marlene
Mancini, Alexander L.
Lehmann, Sophie
Blessin, Manpreet
Gilan, Donya
Helmreich, Isabella
Hufert, Frank
Lieb, Klaus
Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title_full Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title_fullStr Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title_full_unstemmed Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title_short Mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: A systematic scoping review
title_sort mental health and psychosocial support strategies in highly contagious emerging disease outbreaks of substantial public concern: a systematic scoping review
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33534786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244748
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