Mental Health Management Strategies and COVID-19 Pandamic

COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted the psychological state, wellness, and psychosocial outcomes of people across the world.

The health care teams still experience elevated levels of stress and anxiety under the impact of their work burden and immense responsibility to contain the pandemic.
They also experience a marked reduction in their self-efficacy that continues to challenge their performance and decision-making to an unprecedented level.

The disrupted social support and sleep quality thanks to staff shortage and resource scarcity have converted their fight against COVID-19 into a nightmare. most significantly, the health care professionals experience an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19 since the hospital environment is conducive to the onset of nosocomial infections.

 Furthermore, the highly contagious nature of COVID-19 infection risks the lives of the health care teams during a manner to extend their predisposition towards morbidity and mortality.
The compliance to social distancing norms and PPEs (personal protective equipment) substantially distresses the medical teams while increasing their frustration and panic. 

The disturbed sleep quality or sleep latency not only deteriorates their daytime activities but also reduces their cognition and executive functioning.
Ironically, similar stress and anxiety levels are recorded in COVID-19 infected patients and their caretakers.

 The poor-rated self-health status and physical symptoms including coryza, dizziness, and myalgia in young patients elevate their depression, anxiety, and stress supported the adverse COVID-19 prognosis.

 The stratification of the infected people and their labeling by healthy individuals exert a drastic impact on their psychological state and well-being.

The stakeholders of the COVID-19 infection management teams strive for enhancing their social connectedness through digital platforms within the context of improving their moral support warranted to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

 The social confinement of the healthy people across the world thanks to lockdown measures also increases their risk of panic attacks and anxiety-depression. Eventually, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to extend the danger of violence and suicidal or homicidal attempts by the home-confined people.

The drastic slowdown of the worldwide economic infrastructure, loss of jobs/employment opportunities, and social restrictions still deteriorate the psychological state of youngsters, adolescents, youngsters, middle-aged people, and elders across the world.

These outcomes necessitate the configuration of remedial measures to scale back the COVID-19 related fear and apprehension of worldwide societies.

The acquisition of social support now appears unrealistic and troublesome since the COVID-19 prevention guidelines stringently advocate social distancing and confinement of the healthy also as infected individuals.