Health professionals directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with Covid-19

Abstract

Introduction: 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.