Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Ways to Deal with it in the General Population and Certain Specific Populations

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Roukaya Benjelloun Rabie Karrouri Yassine Otheman

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Yassine Otheman
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Head of Psychiatry Department, Moulay Ismail Military Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco

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Background: During this pandemic year, the world has been experiencing an unprecedented situation on several levels. The measures taken, while necessary and vital, are significant stressors and can have, along with many other factors, a psychological impact on the general population and some vulnerable categories. Aim: Here we propose to describe this psychological impact, giving some advice in line with international recommendations. Method and Results: Through a summary of the main recommendations issued in this area recently, we have established a list of advice for professionals and concerned people. Discussion and Conclusion: Protecting ourselves and the most vulnerable people, from the psychological risks to which we are exposed, is currently an absolute necessity in order to be able to get out of this situation with the least possible damage. Learning to cope with these difficult times is also a way to learn how to deal with the adversity that such events can constitute in the future.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 23, Oct 2020
Accepted: Thu 03, Dec 2020
Published: Tue 29, Dec 2020

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© 2023 Yassine Otheman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.PDR.2020.03.02