Saúde mental na pandemia da COVID-19 e alternativas complementares de tratamento: uma revisão.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a new reality to humanity, lasting for a long time and causing the collapse of public health services. Due to the prolonged social isolation, many individuals began to experience problems physical, psychological and cognitive. In addition, it negatively affected individuals with preexisting mental disorders of depression and anxiety. The present work had as a goal to survey the scientific literature on health impacts against the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as emphasizing the PICS (Practices Integrative and Complementary) as complementary forms of treatment. Was an integrative literature review was carried out in the Pubmed, Eletronic databases. Libary Online (SciElo), Virtual Health Library (BVS), Academic Google and dos national and international health committees. Works published in the last 10 years, between 2011 and 2021, in four languages, Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian, the reading sequence started with the title, then the abstract and finally the reading of the full article, being selected from a total of 52 articles. During the study it was possible to identify the increase in mental and behavioral disorders, including: anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and sleep disorders in population, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this way, the adoption of non-pharmacological treatments, such as PICS, appear as support pillars in care basic, from the perspective of promoting mental health, well-being and quality of life to individuals. Therefore, it is important to have the support and guidance of the professional pharmacist who is qualified to provide health care and today also includes energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual and social aspects of the individual. Being thus, the work emphasized the impacts of COVID-19, as well as the performance of the pharmacist in the mental health of primary care users, praising the PICS as complementary forms of health.