Annotate 4 Articles on Healthcare Planning example: Article 1- Mental Health planning at a very early stage of the COVID-19 crisis: A systematic review of Online International Strategies and Recommendations.
Reference: Almeda, N., García-Alonso, C., & Salvador-Carulla, L. (2021). Mental Health Planning at a very early stage of the COVID-19 crisis: A systematic review of Online International Strategies and Recommendations. BMC Psychiatry, 21(1).
Keywords: Included keywords are mental health, COVID-19, and questionnaire.
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The article discusses how being on lockdown due to COVID-19 affected the mental health of people with mental health issues. It created negative results. The article is trying to establish, give account, and evaluate some of the ways to handle the mental issues that may arise because of the impact of COVID-19 at the beginning part of the pandemic. People that are already experiencing “anxiety and depression, fear, and distress” are aggravated by more symptoms due to being confined to their homes. The death of mental health people during the pandemic was high. The methodology that was used was a questionnaire broken down into three classifications which were “COVID-19 information, mental health strategies, and mental health recommendations”. Some of the services were videoconferences for outpatient care and home visits, online communication, and emergency room admission. There were short-term and long-term facilities. There were provisions in place for mental health people. A detailed examination was done to capture the behaviors by using a two-step cluster. The results showed relationships among the questions like “psychological tips for maintaining good mental health” and “psychological skills to help cope with anxiety and worry about COVID-19”. The results showed that statistics and graphs were important. Paragraph 2
The study was done to show what help could be given to mental health patients that were having a hard time during COVID-19 confinement at home. Patients were not only dealing with their basic symptoms but being aggravated by new ones brought on by confinement. If things got really bad for them, they could be admitted as an inpatient. This is something that most people probably never thought about unless they have a family member dealing with this illness. Healthcare professionals had to come up with innovative ways to reach and treat people during the pandemic which intensified the situation. During COVID-19, there were people that did not have a mental illness and were feeling aggravated by the confinement. Fear and distress would have settled in anyone’s mind when there is no one to talk to and your alone. Providers and managers in facilities that could not open due to COVID-19 had to think about how to provide healthcare services to their patients. The study was important in showing how mental health people were dealing with being in confinement for such a long time. We desire human contact. It also touched on the behavior during the pandemic. There was a large number of mental health people that could not deal with the symptoms and died. During the pandemic, healthcare professionals had to deal with suicides that were high, so measures were trying to be put in place to assist anyone having a crisis. Mental Health illness is very serious, so this study addressing this was important.