Research tendencies about mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Objective: To carry out a systematic review of the research trend on mental disorders symptoms during the COVID -19 pandemic.
Methods: Articles published between December 31, 2019 and May 3, 2020 were retrieved in Pubmed, SCOPUS, EBSCO, PsycINFO, Science Direct, Redalyc, and Web of Science, selected according to the PRISMA methodology, a total of 16 articles by ruling out duplicates or non-empirical studies.
Results: Most were carried out in China, the sample size ranged between 20 and 7236 participants, mostly adolescents and adults, between 12 and 80 years old, with non-probability sampling for convenience. The most studied symptoms and disorderswere anxiety (28%), depression (23%), stress (15.3%), sleep-wake disorder (9.6%) and post-traumatic stress disorder (5.7%), associated with psychoactive substance use, low academic performance, job loss, sleep quality, low self-care, and low perception of health status during the pandemic.
Conclusions: The symptoms and disorders of anxiety, depression, and stress are the most frequent. Some limitations are the absence of pre-pandemic or quarantine measurement and the use of non-random sampling to generalize the results. Intervention research needs to be formulated to mitigate the psychological impact. Health systems must offer prevention and health promotion programs that consider psychosocial factors aimed at the general population, patients, and health personnel, to decrease the prevalence of these difficulties, particularly for Latin America where about scientific production is scarce.
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