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[...]one of the potential concepts that can help protect individuals from the negative effects of COVID-19 is thought to be self-compassion. The results of this review will raise awareness of mental health professionals that intervention studies focusing on self-compassion should be applied both to patients in clinical settings and to society in terms of preventive mental health. [...]of the examinations performed on the patients, they found that the disease in question was not pneumonia but a different version of the coronavirus not seen before (Goyal et al. 2020, Zoralioǧlu 2020). In the light of this information, it is seen that the COVID-19 pandemic causes several mental problems, especially fear, stress, anxiety, and depression in all parts of society. [...]it is considered that studies should be carried out to strengthen the mental health of the community in order to prevent mental problems.
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This study was carried out to determine the relationship between the spiritual orientation and psychological well-being levels of inpatients diagnosed with COVID-19 and the factors affecting the psychological well-being of patients. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 136 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who were hospitalized in the COVID-19 clinics of a state hospital between May and July 2021 and volunteered to participate in the study. To collect the study data, the Personal Information Form, Spiritual Orientation Scale (SOS) and Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) were used. There was a positive correlation between the mean scores obtained from the overall SOS and PWBS (r = .335, p < .001). Of the participants, those who were women, who were over 65-year-old patients, who were hospitalized for 8-14 days and who had chronic diseases had lower levels of psychological well-being. The inpatients with a diagnosis of COVID-19 had high levels of spirituality and psychological well-being. It was found that there is a relationship between the spiritual orientation and psychological well-being of inpatients hospitalized with the diagnosis of COVID-19. The fact that nurses take spirituality into account while providing care to patients diagnosed with COVID-19 may be effective in protecting their patients' mental health.
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COVID-19 , Inpatients , Aged , COVID-19 Testing , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Inpatients/psychology , Male , Spirituality , Surveys and Questionnaires , TurkeyABSTRACT
According to WHO, mental health is the state of a person who realizes his potential, copes with stress factors, is productive and efficient in society, and maintains a state of internal balance (WHO 2012). According to the 2021 data of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), it was found that the number of people diagnosed with major depressive disorder increased by 28.1%, and the number of people diagnosed with anxiety by 27.9% compared to other years in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID-19 Mental Disorders Collaborators 2021). According to the health literacy study performed in our country, while 64.6% of the society was found to have a low level of health literacy (Taş ve Akış 2016, Kaya and Karaca Sivrikaya 2019), there was no study revealing the mental health literacy of the society. While there are some studies that reveal the mental health literacy of societies in the international literature (Reavley and Jorm 2011, Gulliver et al. 2017, Ratnayake and Hyde 2019), it is remarkable that there are only a limited number of studies examining the mental health literacy levels of healthcare professionals in our country (Öztaş and Aydoǧan 2021, Çinçinoǧlu and Okanlı 2021). [...]the purpose of this review is to discuss the concept of mental health literacy, its importance, components, interventions to improve it, and what psychiatric nurses can do about it.