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What we have learnt about trauma, loss and grief for children in response to COVID-19

The disruption of daily life resulting from COVID-19 and its precautions has taken an enormous emotional toll on children and families. The consequences of disrupted schooling, changed social interactions and altered family dynamics has had some unanticip...

Trends in Mortality Rates Among Medicare Enrollees With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Before and During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the delivery of health care in the United States. The associations between these COVID-19-related changes and outcomes in vulnerable patients, such as among persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (...

The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures: Experience from 4000 participants

BACKGROUND: In February 2020 the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in Kuwait. Inevitably as many countries worldwide, the general public were negatively affected by the pandemic. Unemployment, uncertainty, distress, increasing deaths, lockdown measu...

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School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: A rapid systematic review

In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, 107 countries had implemented national school closures by March 18, 2020. It is unknown whether school measures are effective in coronavirus outbreaks (eg, due to severe acute respiratory sy...

SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in Norway: Confirmed infection, hospitalisations and underlying conditions

Children and adolescents are at lower risk of disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. We describe the incidence of confirmed infection and hospitalisation of children and adolescents under the age of 20 in Norway, and specifically among those with underlying condit...

Regulation and Trust: 3-Month Follow-up Study on COVID-19 Mortality in 25 European Countries

Background: The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has dramatically changed societies in 2020. Since the end of February, Europe has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19, but there are major country differences in both the spread of the viru...

Psychological support during COVID-19 death notifications: Clinical experiences from a hospital in Mexico

It is estimated that more than 300,000 people have died because of COVID-19 globally. The vast majority of documented deaths have occurred within hospitals, leading to psychological impacts on both family members and health care workers. This paper descri...

Promoting resilience in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological interventions for intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians and family members

This contribution draws from the experience of intensive care unit psychologists at 2 frontline hospitals in Milan, Italy, during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this contribution, we describe the main psychological needs observed in clinicia...

P.0669 Differential response to three antidepressants in patients with major depressive episode who suffered Covid-19-related trauma

Introduction. The Covid 19 has probably altered the epidemiology of mental disorders worldwide, with their incidence which is likely to have increased during the pandemic [1,2]. It is possible that it has impacted response to drug treatment in psychiatric...

Nursing homes or abandoned castles: COVID-19 in Italy

In May 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, we described Italian retirement homes (particularly in northern Italy) as besieged castles. 1  These homes were in difficult times with no visitors allowed and a very high number of deaths, but overall they ...

Mental disorders and risk of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Mental disorders might be a risk factor for severe COVID-19. We aimed to assess the specific risks of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission associated with any pre-existing mental disorder, and spe...

Increased risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality in people with mental disorders: Analysis from electronic health records in the United States

Concerns have been expressed that persons with a pre-existing mental disorder may represent a population at increased risk for COVID-19 infection and with a higher likelihood of adverse outcomes of the infection, but there is no systematic research eviden...

Excess deaths from COVID-19 correlate with age and socio-economic status. A database study in the Stockholm region

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire health care system, internationally as well as in Sweden. We aimed to study excess deaths (all death causes, but also COVID-19-related deaths) during the COVID-19 pandemic regarding age, socio-econ...

Coping With Trauma, Celebrating Life: Reinventing Patient And Staff Support During The COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to the New York City Health + Hospitals system. In addition to ramping up capacity and adapting operations quickly to handle the patient surge, NYC Health + Hospitals had ...