PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has sparked a global health crisis that has altered our perceptions of the world and our daily lives. Not only has the velocity of infection and transmission patterns undermined our feeling of agency, but the safety measures to restrict the virus's spread also demanded social and physical separation, prohibiting us from seeking solace in the company of others. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc on daily life and normal activities as well as having serious health, economic, financial, and societal consequences Lockdowns and physical/social distancing measures were enforced in numerous countries throughout the world beginning in March 2020. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. This high death toll, combined with the rapid changes in daily life brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a negative impact on child and adolescent mental health. Individuals' reactions to the security measures adopted to combat the epidemic varied depending on the social roles they played. Some segments of the population seem to be more exposed to the risk of anxious, depressive, and post-traumatic symptoms as the population is more susceptible to stress. COVID-19 pandemic has generated a situation like mass hysteria or fear. This mass fear of COVID-19, termed as “Coronaphobia”, has generated a plethora of psychiatric manifestations across societies. In India, the first and foremost responses to the pandemic have been fear and a sense of clear and imminent danger. Fears have ranged from those based on facts to unfounded fears based on misinformation circulating in the media, particularly social media. All of us respond differently to the barrage of information from all the available sources. It is equally important to consider the impact of the various phases of the pandemic on children, the elderly and pregnant women. The worries of adults can be transmitted to children and make them anxious and fearful. They can become very easily bored, angry and frustrated. Without an opportunity for outdoor play and socialization, they may become increasingly engrossed in social media and online entertainment, which can make them even more socially isolated when they emerge out of this situation. Parents need to know means of keeping the children engaged, providing an opportunity to learn new skills at home, as well as encourage children to participate in activities, get them engaged in “edutainment” and hone their extracurricular skills as well. Children with special needs may need innovative approaches to engage them and keep them active at home. For the elderly, they can feel further isolated and neglected, become more worried about their families, and increasingly worried about their health. They may not have the support systems to care for them, particularly in terms of their medical needs. This can aggravate into anxiety and depression.

scholarly journals AN ANALYZING THE IMPACT PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 TO THE EDUCATION IN INDONESIA: STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Risca Dwiaryanti ◽  
Fadali Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

Pandemic covid-19 has surprised people all over the world. It happen suddenly and give many impacts to all aspects of human’s life including education in Indonesia. Since, the minister of education and culture stated that all he activity of teaching and learning should be done at home by online learning, then it gives some positive and negative impact. The negative impacts are; not all teachers, studemts, or parents have a facility to access internet, nor use IT well, for example theachers who are old or students of pre school still need their parents’ help. Then, not all parent can earn money to buy internet quota.  Moreover, the positives impacts are; the students become familiar to use IT and it is safe for them to avoid covid-19 outbreak by studying at home.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media on Navodit College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Anup Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New World ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

Today social media has been commonly used by everyone especially the young people and the institutions too are getting in to this modern medium of communication rapidly. It has created a new world of collaborations and communication. And it has also facilitated an easy and economical way of communication between friends and families across the world. On the other side, social media has dragged the youngsters and students into it and to the extent that it fritters away their valuable time, energy and money. Many students spent most of the time in those sites which ultimately does not contribute to their lives as well as in their academic life.Now-a-days, many social media have been invented from local and multinational company in national and international level. The purpose of this research paper is to assess the impact of social media on Navodit College students. The researcher tries to examine and identify the impact of social media in the research. The objective of this study was to explore and investigate the factors compelling the college students to using social media. Qualitative and Quantitative, both research methods were used while conducting the research and this research is done in Navodit College (Tribhuvan University, Nepal). 109 Bachelors level students was involved to fill up the questionnaire of the academic year of 2019/2020. Research upon social media is more important because it has both positive and negative impact upon the students in their psychological and physical aspect.  

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media on Communication Politeness: A Survey of Prospective Primary School Teacher Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Julia Julia ◽  
Dadang Kurnia ◽  
Ali Sudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The Impact

The presence of social media into daily life has had a positive and negative impact on communicating manners. This impact also occurs in the educational environment or on campus. This paper aims to analyze student politeness in communicating through social media. The study was conducted by providing a survey of 147 students (ages between 19-24 years). The results of the study prove that communication through social media has an impact on students to be more willing to communicate with anyone. However, politeness in communication have decreased, because the survey shows that the ethics of communicating through social media are not good and not polite. Thus, it can be concluded that social media has influenced the politeness of communication between students and between students and lecturers.

scholarly journals My story in response to the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a relational psychoanalytic approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelda Gillian Knight
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Online Therapy ◽  
Consultation Room ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

The hallmark of being human is to tell stories. The stories told give meaning to the experience, and it is in telling stories about our experience, that we begin the process of meaning-making. Psychotherapy is storytelling, and in our consultation room we, as psychotherapists, listen to the tales told. This paper documents my story in response to some of the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While there have been pandemics before, this pandemic is arguable unique because of social media and the number of people across the world who can share their experience. It is said that more than 4 billion people have self-isolated at home together at the same time as a collective humanity in response to their country’s lockdown rules. For psychotherapists, the shift to online therapy has allowed for a continuation of psychotherapy, and the telling of stories of COVID-19. Some of their stories are sad stories of loss and uncertainty. Some of their stories are more positive and inspiring. In this paper, three patients’ stories have been selected that illustrate both the positive and negative reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the conceptual framework is relational psychoanalytic with its focus on the dynamics of the intersubjective relationship, my story, as counter-transference reactions are incorporated.

IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE MIGRATION SITUATION AND MIGRATION POLICY IN BELARUS

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Rusu ◽  
◽  
Nikita S. Ryazantsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
High Unemployment Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
Money Transfers ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Life Career ◽  
At Home

Since 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a new factor in changing the migration situation in the world, and its impact has had an extremely negative impact in all countries of the world. In the article, the authors consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the migration situation and migration policy in Belarus. At the beginning of the pandemic, the Belarusian authorities did not recognize the threat of COVID-19 and denied the need to impose a ban on crossing the state border, which is why the current situation in Belarus was not like other countries. However, as in other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the labor market and labor migration in general. Belarusian migrants, like most migrants in the world, leave in search of a better life, career and high wages abroad. In 2019-2020, the majority had to return to their homeland and adapt to new living conditions, including finding a job at home, with a relatively high unemployment rate in the country. Also, it is worth noting that despite the pandemic, money transfers that were transferred by migrants from abroad did not decrease, but on the contrary increased, which is most likely due to the fact that migrants provided assistance to their relatives and friends who found themselves in a difficult situation at home.

scholarly journals The impact of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and social health of children and adolescents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel A. J. Luijten ◽  
Maud M. van Muilekom ◽  
Lorynn Teela ◽  
Hedy A. van Oers ◽  
Caroline B. Terwee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Social Health ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

AbstractImportanceIt is unknown how a lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic impacts children’s and adolescents’ mental and social health.ObjectiveTo compare mental and social health of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown versus before, identify associated factors, describe the change in atmosphere at home and qualitatively assess the impact of COVID-19 regulations on daily life.DesignCross-sectional study comparing two Dutch representative samples of children and adolescents (8-18 years); before COVID-19 (Dec2017-July2018) and during the COVID-19 lockdown (April/May 2020).SettingPopulation-basedParticipantsChildren and adolescents aged 8-18 years (M=13.4, 47.4% male), representative of the Dutch population on key demographics.Exposure(s)COVID-19 pandemic lockdownMain Outcome(s) and Measure(s)Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) domains: Global Health, Peer Relationships, Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, Anger and Sleep-Related Impairment. Single item on atmosphere at home and open question regarding the impact of the regulations on the child/adolescent’s daily lifeResultsChildren and adolescents reported significantly worse PROMIS T-scores on all domains (absolute mean difference range, 2.1-7.1; absolute 95% CI range, 1.3-7.9) during the COVID-19 lockdown as compared to before COVID-19. More children reported severe Anxiety (during 16.7% vs. before 8.6%; relative risk 1.95; 95% CI 1.55-2.46) and Sleep-Related Impairment (during 11.5% vs. before 6.1%; relative risk 1.89; 95% CI 1.29-2.78). Fewer children reported poor Global Health (during 1.7 vs. before 4.6%; relative risk 0.36; 95% CI 0.20-0.65). More mental and social health complaints during the COVID-19 lockdown were found in children and adolescents growing up in a single-parent family, having ≥three children in the family, a negative change in work situation of parents due to COVID-19 regulations, and having a relative/friend infected with COVID-19. A small effect was found on atmosphere at home during the lockdown compared to before (mean difference, −3.1; 95% CI, −4.1 −−2.1). A large majority (>90%) reported a negative impact of the COVID-19 regulations on their daily life.Conclusions and RelevanceThis study showed that governmental regulations regarding lockdown pose a serious mental and social health threat on children and adolescents that should be brought to the forefront of political decision making and mental health care policy, intervention and prevention.Key pointsQuestionWhat is the impact of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and social health in children and adolescents compared to before COVID-19?FindingsThis population-based study shows that during the COVID-19 lockdown children and adolescents report lower mental and social health, especially on anxiety and depressive symptoms.MeaningIn proposing new COVID regulations (e.g., closing schools) governments should be mindful of the negative impact of a lockdown on mental and social health of children and adolescents.

Impact of hydroxychloroquin/azithromycin protocol on COVID-19 case-fatality rate reduction in Algeria. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Youssef Kada
Keyword(s):  
Case Fatality Rate ◽  
Doubling Time ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Fatality Rate ◽  
Therapeutic Protocol ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

BACKGROUND Covid-19 is an emerging infectious disease like viral zoonosis caused by new coronavirus SARS CoV 2. On December 31, 2019, Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in Hubei province (China) reported cases of pneumonia, the origin of which is a new coronavirus. Rapidly extendable around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) declares it pandemic on March 11, 2020. This pandemic reaches Algeria on February 25, 2020, date on which the Algerian minister of health, announced the first case of Covid-19, a foreign citizen. From March 1, a cluster is formed in Blida and becomes the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in Algeria, its total quarantine is established on March 24, 2020, it will be smoothly alleviated on April 24. A therapeutic protocol based on hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was put in place on March 23, for complicated cases, it was extended to all the cases confirmed on April 06. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquin/azithromycin protocol in Algeria, in particular after its extension to all patients diagnosed COVID-19 positive on RT-PCR test. We were able to illustrate this fact graphically, but not to prove it statistically because the design of our study, indeed in the 7 days which followed generalization of therapeutic protocol, case fatality rate decrease and doubling time increase, thus confirming the impact of wide and early prescription of hydroxychloroquin/azithromycin protocol. METHODS We have analyzed the data collected from press releases and follow-ups published daily by the Ministry of Health, we have studied the possible correlations of these data with certain events or decisions having a possible impact on their development, such as confinement at home and its reduction, the prescription of hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combination for serious patients and its extension to all positive COVID subjects. Results are presented in graphics, the data collection was closed on 31/05/2020. RESULTS Covid-19 pandemic spreads from February 25, 2020, when a foreign citizen is tested positive, on March 1 a cluster is formed in the city of Blida where sixteen members of the same family are infected during a wedding party. Wilaya of Blida becomes the epicentre of coronavirus epidemic in Algeria and lockdown measures taken, while the number of national cases diagnosed begins to increases In any event, the association of early containment measures combined with a generalized initial treatment for all positive cases, whatever their degree of severity, will have contributed to a reduction in the fatality rate of COVID 19 and a slowing down of its doubling time. CONCLUSIONS In Algeria, the rapid combination of rigorous containment measure at home and early generalized treatment with hydroxychloroquin have demonstrated their effectiveness in terms of morbidity and mortality, the classic measures of social distancing and hygiene will make it possible to perpetuate these results by reducing viral transmission, the only unknown, the reopening procedure which can only be started after being surrounded by precautions aimed at ensuring the understanding of the population. CLINICALTRIAL Algeria, Covid-19, pandemic, hydroxychloroquin, azithromycin, case fatality rate

scholarly journals Health risk assessment and countermeasure analysis of the elderly population exposed to PM2.5 microenvironment

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Wantian Cui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Exposure Concentration ◽  
Physical Diseases ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND: China’s atmospheric PM2.5 pollution is serious, and PM2.5 exerts a negative impact on the human respiratory system, cardiovascular, and mental health, and even more serious health risk for the elderly with weak immunity. OBJECTIVE: This work aims to analyse the impacts of PM2.5 microenvironment exposure on the health of the elderly and provide corresponding countermeasures. METHODS: The survey subjects are 118 retired elderly people in the community. PM2.5 exposure concentrations are monitored in summer (June 10 ∼ July 10, 2019) and winter (November 25 ∼ December 25, 2019). RESULTS: The exposure concentration in winter is higher than that in summer, with statistical difference (P <  0.05). Under the impact of PM2.5 microenvironment exposure, smoking in the elderly can increase the concentration of PM2.5, and long-term exposure to PM2.5 in the elderly can cause mental health problems. CONCLUSION: Long-term exposure of the elderly to the PM2.5 microenvironment leads to physical diseases and even psychological problems, which requires attention.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Surgical Training: the Past, the Present and the Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Yiasemidou
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Surgical Services ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and infection control measures had an unavoidable impact on surgical services. During the first wave of the pandemic, elective surgery, endoscopy, and ‘face-to-face’ clinics were discontinued after recommendations from professional bodies. In addition, training courses, examinations, conferences, and training rotations were postponed or cancelled. Inadvertently, infection control and prevention measures, both within and outside hospitals, have caused a significant negative impact on training. At the same time, they have given space to new technologies, like telemedicine and platforms for webinars, to blossom. While the recovery phase is well underway in some parts of the world, most surgical services are not operating at full capacity. Unfortunately, some countries are still battling a second or third wave of the pandemic with severely negative consequences on surgical services. Several studies have looked into the impact of COVID-19 on surgical training. Here, an objective overview of studies from different parts of the world is presented. Also, evidence-based solutions are suggested for future surgical training interventions.

The Impact of COVID-19: Democracy in the Time of a Pandemic

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-482
Author(s):  
Zoya Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The recent spread of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, though uneven, has once again set alarm bells ringing throughout the world. Nearly two years have passed since the onset of this pandemic: vaccines have been developed and vaccination is underway, but the end of the campaign against the pandemic is nowhere in sight. This drive has merely attempted to adjust and readjust, with or without success, to the various fresh challenges that have kept emerging from time to time. The pandemic’s persistence and its handling by the governments both have had implications for citizens’/peoples’ rights as well as for the systems which were in place before the pandemic. In this symposium domain experts investigate, with a sharp focus on India, the interface between the COVID-19 pandemic and democracy, health, education and social sciences. These contributions are notable for their nuanced and insightful examination of the impact of the pandemic on crucial social development issues with special attention to the exacerbated plight of society’s marginalised sections. In India, as in several other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected democracy. The health crisis came at a moment when India was already experiencing democratic backsliding. The pandemic came in handy in imposing greater restrictions on democratic rights, public discussion and political opposition. This note provides an analysis and commentary on how the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted governance, at times undermining human rights and democratic processes, and posing a range of new challenges to democracy.

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