Bhushan Kritant, Khanna Sanat, Sharma Mansi Luthra, Rai Prathiba
Govt Hospital, Shimla, India.
J Maxillofac Oral Surg. 2022 Mar;21(1):271-276. doi: 10.1007/s12663-021-01639-5. Epub 2021 Sep 14.
As the COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly griping the world, it starts effecting the psychosocial health of the patients, health care workers, frontline workers and their dependents. The entire landscape of existing patient psychological counselling and management needs to be changed to avoid fear and misinformation about COVID-19.
In this article, we have tried to summarize the rules, regulations and protocols in accordance with government guidelines along with practical implementation of counselling in management of psychological health condition of patients and frontline workers.
If used wisely and as per recommendations, psychosocial counselling is a very useful tool in the present COVID-19 pandemic, to avoid spread of misinformation, fear and grief about the disease which creates mental health issue and anxiety among close contacts as well as health care workers.
随着新冠疫情在全球的影响日益加剧，它开始对患者、医护人员、一线工作者及其家属的心理社会健康产生影响。现有的患者心理咨询与管理的整体格局需要改变，以避免关于新冠疫情的恐惧和错误信息。
在本文中，我们试图根据政府指南总结相关规则、法规和协议，以及在管理患者和一线工作者心理健康状况时咨询的实际应用。
如果明智地按照建议使用，心理社会咨询在当前的新冠疫情中是一个非常有用的工具，可避免关于该疾病的错误信息、恐惧和悲伤的传播，这些会在密切接触者以及医护人员中引发心理健康问题和焦虑。
