Living through the psychological consequences of COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of effective mitigating interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This review assesses interventions and their effectiveness in mitigating psychological consequences from pandemic.

Method

Published English literatures were searched from four databases (Medline, PubMed, Embase and PsycINFO) from January 2020 and September 2021. A total of 27 papers with 29 studies (one paper reported three studies) met inclusion criteria. Cochrane risk-of-bias tool is applied to assess the quality of all randomised controlled trials (RCT).

Results

All studies were recently conducted in 2020. Publications were from high-income (13, 44.8%), upper middle-income (12, 41.4%) and lower middle-income countries (3, 10.3%) and global (1, 3.5%). Half of the studies conducted for general population (51.7%). One-third of studies (8, 27.6%) provided int

SUBMITTER: Lekagul A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9329730 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature