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Chapter 32 - Quarantine, Lockdown, and Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic

from Section 4 - Responses to Meet the Mental Health Needs of People Affected by Emergencies, Major Incidents, and Pandemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Samantha K Brooks ,
Rebecca K Webster ,
Louise E Smith ,
Lisa Woodland  and
Neil Greenberg
Edited by
Richard Williams ,
Verity Kemp ,
Keith Porter ,
Tim Healing  and
John Drury
Richard Williams
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Verity Kemp
Affiliation:
Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant
Keith Porter
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Tim Healing
Affiliation:
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London
John Drury
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Summary

This chapter considers the potential psychological impact of the quarantines, lockdowns, and isolation that have affected almost every country in the world as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak. It describes the published literature on the short-term and long-term psychological impact of other (pre-2020) pandemic-related quarantines, identifies factors associated with this psychological impact pre-quarantine, during quarantine, and in the long term, discusses how this applies to the COVID-19 pandemic, and suggests how the psychological impact of quarantine and isolation might be reduced.

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COVID-19isolationlockdownpsychological impactquarantine
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Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health
The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks
 , pp. 241 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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