Flattening the emotional distress curve: A behavioral health pandemic response strategy for COVID-19.

Kaslow, Nadine J.; Friis-Healy, Elsa A.; Cattie, Jordan E.; Cook, Sarah; Crowell, Andrea; Cullum, Katherine A.; Rı́o, Carlos del; Marshall-Lee, Erica D.; LoPilato, Allison M.; VanderBroek-Stice, Lauren; Ward, Martha C.; White, De Juan T.; Farber, Eugene W.

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“…The performance of CPMCV-19 resulted in avoidance of physical contact in a significant quantity and rapid processing for fever or symptom-detected individuals by spending reasonable costs of budget, time and labor, indicative of effective and practical measures for campus protection. These execution results not only provide physical protection but also psychological disburden for campus crisis and human stress [ 16 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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The First 100 Days: Establishment and Effectiveness of Campus Protection Measures at a College during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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To prevent transmission of the coronavirus, we established the campus protection measures for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (CPMCV-19) and analyzed the effectiveness and cost in practice. This project was set in Taiwan. We organized an anti-epidemic task force team from multidisciplinary co-workers to establish the CPMCV-19. The essential components were as follows: no close contact communication, sterilization, temperature control, social distancing, activity restrictions, personal hygiene control, and situational awareness. During 100 days of operation, the mean time spent for frontal temperature measuring was 2.7 ± 0.3 s per person. The mean on-duty time for individual personnel to control the gate and measure temperature was 3.5 h per day. In total, 31 persons with loss of taste/smell or fever were detected on campus and sent to hospital for screening within 1 h. A total of 6 persons were instructed to observe self-health management due to possible contact or travel history, and none were diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. A total budget of USD 27,100 was used for CMPCV-19 in this period. The established campus protection measures for COVID-19 were practical and might be effective. They can be used as reference for schools in a pandemic, such as COVID-19.

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The First 100 Days: Establishment and Effectiveness of Campus Protection Measures at a College during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…In Australia, mental health problems were at least twice as prevalent in 2020 as in nonpandemic circumstances (Fisher et al, 2020). Not surprisingly, there have been widespread calls to alleviate psychological distress amongst the community ("American Psychological Association," 2020; Bao et al, 2020;Kaslow et al, 2020;Soklaridis et al, 2020). For those who are not experiencing psychopathology symptoms but are still having strong negative emotions (which is a healthy response to COVID-19), minimizing suffering and keeping the negative emotions from becoming overgeneralized is also an important public health concern to address.…”

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Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

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Algoe²,

Dutton

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The Journal of Positive Psychology

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As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to broaden these calls by considering the role that positive psychology factors can play in buffering against mental illness, bolstering mental health during COVID-19 and building positive processes and capacities that may help to strengthen future mental health. The paper explores evidence and applications from nine topics in positive psychology that support people through a pandemic: meaning, coping, selfcompassion, courage, gratitude, character strengths, positive emotions, positive interpersonal processes and high-quality connections. In times of intense crisis, such as COVID-19, it is understandable that research is heavily directed towards addressing the ways in which people are wounded and weakened. However, this need not come at the expense of also investigating the ways in which people are sustained and strengthened.

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“…Furthermore, this aspect risks promoting further psychosocial problems when these participants interact with other participants through conditioning. Although various approaches have been proposed to help populations suffering from psychosocial problems induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, 15 there is an objective difficulty in treating a large population. Therefore, to try to alleviate psychological and psychiatric disorders induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be appropriate to have effective methods that can be administered to large populations in a simple way with short administration times.…”

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“…[12][13][14] Essentially, these strategies are based on psychological support. 6,15 However, psychological support requires prolonged and continuous physical or web-based contact between a psychologist and a patient, which limits the number of patients able to be treated. While other therapeutic neuromodulation techniques have previously demonstrated efficacy in treating these disorders, such as neuromodulation treatments using radio electric asymmetric conveyer (REAC) technology, [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] although they have the advantage of requiring much shorter administration times, unfortunately, they are not web-based.…”

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<p>REAC Cervicobrachial Neuromodulation Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic</p>

Barcessat¹,

Bittencourt²,

Ferreira³

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In addition to the effects of coronavirus infection, the Covid-19 pandemic has induced widespread psychosocial distress, which has triggered the onset of anxious and depressive states, reactive to the socio-relational and economic situation induced by the pandemic. Some of our participants showed depressive and anxious attitudes even in the absence of real pictures of depression and anxiety. This phenomenon, combined with mechanisms of emulation and conditioning, can trigger a vicious cycle within interpersonal relationships and promote the administration of unnecessary treatments. Various approaches have been proposed to help populations suffering from psychosocial problems induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, but there is an objective difficulty in treating a large population. Methods: To contain and reduce this widespread psychosocial unease, in this study we used two radio electric asymmetric conveyer (REAC) technology neuromodulation treatments, neuro postural optimization (NPO) and neuropsychophysical optimization-cervicobrachial (NPPO-CB), aimed at optimizing an individual's response to the effects of environmental stressors. These treatments are quick and easy to administer; therefore, they can be administered to a large cohort of participants in a short time. To evaluate the effects of the REAC NPO and NPPO-CB treatments, the DASS-21 psychometric test was used because it has already been used to test depression, anxiety, and stress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Results: The results of the study confirm the usefulness of REAC NPO and NPPO-CB treatments in helping participants to have better coping strategies for the environmental pressures and reduce the neuropsychological and behavioral effects induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Discussion: The results obtained in this study are consistent with previous clinical studies confirming the usefulness of the treatments to face neuropsychological and behavioral effects induced by exposome pressure.

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Flattening the emotional distress curve: A behavioral health pandemic response strategy for COVID-19.

Cited by 61 publications

References 40 publications

The First 100 Days: Establishment and Effectiveness of Campus Protection Measures at a College during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The First 100 Days: Establishment and Effectiveness of Campus Protection Measures at a College during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

<p>REAC Cervicobrachial Neuromodulation Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic</p>

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