Title:Association Between COVID-19 Pandemic and Serious Mental
Illness: Systematic Review within Salutogenesis Model for Public
Health Management
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Author(s): Sweta Kaman*, Ankita Sharma and Romi Banerjee
Affiliation:
- Department of Science of Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Keywords:
COVID-19, serious mental illness (SMI), salutogenesis model, sense of coherence (SOC), public health management, SARS-COV-2.
Abstract:
Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the constant transformation
of the SARS-COV-2 virus form, exposure to substantial psychosocial stress, environmental
change, and isolation have led to the inference that the overall population's mental health could
be affected, resulting in an increase in cases of psychosis.
Objective: We initiated a systematic review to determine the impact of the SARS-COV-2 virus
and its long-term effects - in both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases - on people with or
without psychosis. We envisioned that this would give us an insight into effective clinical intervention
methods for patients with psychosis during and after the pandemic.
Methods: We selected fifteen papers that met our inclusion criteria, i.e., those that considered
participants with or without psychiatric illness and exposed to SARS-COV-2 infection, for this
review and were retrieved via Google, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, PubMed, and PsychINFO
Database.
Key Gap: There is a dearth of research in understanding how COVID-19 affects people with or
without a prior personal history of psychosis.
Results: The systematic review summary provides insight into the state of knowledge. Insights
from the systematic review have also been reviewed from the salutogenesis model's perspective.
There is moderate evidence of new-onset psychosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in
which some antipsychotics treated the psychotic symptoms of patients while treating for
COVID-19. Suggestions and recommendations are made for preventive and promotive public
health strategies.
Conclusion: The Salutogenesis model and Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) provide
another preventive and promotive public health management approach.
