A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic

The global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on mental health (MH). As a response to the pandemic, international agencies and governmental institutions provided an initial response to the population’s needs. As the pandemic evolved, the population circumstances...

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Autores: Almeda Martínez, Nerea, Díaz Milanés, Diego, Ruiz Gutierrez-Colosia, Mencía, García Alonso, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repositorio:Brújula
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Palabra clave:COVID-19
Strategies
Recommendations
Mental health
Systematic review
Longitudinal
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spelling A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemicAlmeda Martínez, NereaDíaz Milanés, DiegoRuiz Gutierrez-Colosia, MencíaGarcía Alonso, CarlosCOVID-19StrategiesRecommendationsMental healthSystematic reviewLongitudinalThe global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on mental health (MH). As a response to the pandemic, international agencies and governmental institutions provided an initial response to the population’s needs. As the pandemic evolved, the population circumstances changed, and some of these international agencies updated their strategies, recommendations, and guidelines for the populations. How‑ever, there is currently a lack of information on the attention given to response strategies by the diferent countries throughout the beginning of the pandemic. Objectives: 1) To evaluate the evolution of online MH strategies and recommendations of selected countries to cope with the MH impact of COVID-19 from the early stages of the pandemic (15 April 2020) to the vaccination period (9 June 2021) and 2) to review and analyse the current structures of these online MH strategies and recommendations. Methodology: An adaptation of the PRISMA guidelines to review online documents was developed with a questionnaire for MH strategies and recommendations assessment. The search was conducted on Google, including documents from April 2020 to June 2021. Basic statistics and Student’s t test were used to assess the evolution of the documents, while a two-step cluster analysis was performed to assess the organisation and characteristics of the most recent documents. Results: Statistically signifcant diferences were found both in the number of symptoms and mental disorders and MH strategies and recommendations included in the initial documents and the updated versions generated after vaccines became available. The most recent versions are more complete in all cases. Regarding the forty-six total documents included in the review, the cluster analysis showed a broad distribution from wide-spectrum documents to documents focusing on a specifc topic. Conclusions: Selected governments and related institutions have worked actively on updating their MH online documents, highlighting actions related to bereavement, telehealth and domestic violence. The study supports the use of the adaptation, including the tailor-made questionnaire, of the PRISMA protocol as a potential standard to conduct longitudinal assessments of online documents used to support MH strategies and recommendations.2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/4537reponame:Brújulainstname:Universidad Loyola AndalucíaIngléshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/45372026-06-24T12:48:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
title A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
spellingShingle A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Almeda Martínez, Nerea
COVID-19
Strategies
Recommendations
Mental health
Systematic review
Longitudinal
title_short A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort A systematic review of the international evolution of online mental health strategies and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Almeda Martínez, Nerea
Díaz Milanés, Diego
Ruiz Gutierrez-Colosia, Mencía
García Alonso, Carlos
author Almeda Martínez, Nerea
author_facet Almeda Martínez, Nerea
Díaz Milanés, Diego
Ruiz Gutierrez-Colosia, Mencía
García Alonso, Carlos
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author2 Díaz Milanés, Diego
Ruiz Gutierrez-Colosia, Mencía
García Alonso, Carlos
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author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv COVID-19
Strategies
Recommendations
Mental health
Systematic review
Longitudinal
topic COVID-19
Strategies
Recommendations
Mental health
Systematic review
Longitudinal
description The global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on mental health (MH). As a response to the pandemic, international agencies and governmental institutions provided an initial response to the population’s needs. As the pandemic evolved, the population circumstances changed, and some of these international agencies updated their strategies, recommendations, and guidelines for the populations. How‑ever, there is currently a lack of information on the attention given to response strategies by the diferent countries throughout the beginning of the pandemic. Objectives: 1) To evaluate the evolution of online MH strategies and recommendations of selected countries to cope with the MH impact of COVID-19 from the early stages of the pandemic (15 April 2020) to the vaccination period (9 June 2021) and 2) to review and analyse the current structures of these online MH strategies and recommendations. Methodology: An adaptation of the PRISMA guidelines to review online documents was developed with a questionnaire for MH strategies and recommendations assessment. The search was conducted on Google, including documents from April 2020 to June 2021. Basic statistics and Student’s t test were used to assess the evolution of the documents, while a two-step cluster analysis was performed to assess the organisation and characteristics of the most recent documents. Results: Statistically signifcant diferences were found both in the number of symptoms and mental disorders and MH strategies and recommendations included in the initial documents and the updated versions generated after vaccines became available. The most recent versions are more complete in all cases. Regarding the forty-six total documents included in the review, the cluster analysis showed a broad distribution from wide-spectrum documents to documents focusing on a specifc topic. Conclusions: Selected governments and related institutions have worked actively on updating their MH online documents, highlighting actions related to bereavement, telehealth and domestic violence. The study supports the use of the adaptation, including the tailor-made questionnaire, of the PRISMA protocol as a potential standard to conduct longitudinal assessments of online documents used to support MH strategies and recommendations.
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