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Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Mini Review
Mental Health and COVID-19: An Action Plan
Author(s): Giulia Simonetti*, Carmela Iosco and Gianfranco Taruschio
Since January 2020, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread and become pandemic. In a few months,
the virus had seriously affected the health systems of various countries of the world and placed people in difficult
psychological conditions. This manuscript briefly reviews COVID-19’s studies focused on psychological reactions to
the event. Furthermore, this work presents a plan to easily frame the priorities of mental health areas related to
COVID-19 which should be disseminated and that should be known by all health professionals and also by the major
administrators of public health to empower the actual situation and prevent future emergencies. Today psychological
COVID-19’s sequelae affected a great number of people in the world and also called “Long COVID” presents
psychological symptoms that affect for a long time people d.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2161-0487.23.13.452