The general confinement in Tunisia in the covid-19 pandemic is a new event for the Tunisian society with economic, social and psychological repercussions.

To evaluate the behavior of Tunisians during the general confinement of 2020.

descriptive and analytical study through a questionnaire sent online under the model of “google forms”.

Our sample is composed of 500 people, mostly women, with an average age of about 40 years, an average to good economic level, and a secondary and higher education level. In the Tunisian family, the most discussed topic during the lockdown is the covid-19 and its evolution in the world and the country. The most avoided subject is the behavior of neighbors. The Tunisian’s main sources of information on covid-19 are television and social networks. The behavior most adopted to avoid contamination is hand washing. Only 2/3 of the group applied the measures announced by the government. A quarter of our sample spent more than 5 hours in front of the computer screen or smartphone. During confinement the most important behaviors are smoking, eating, doing nothing and playing cards. Only 10% of our sample have plans for next year.

For our sample, covid-19 has greatly transformed the behavior in daily life which has become dominated by anxiety and fear of contamination.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in Tunisia has led a total confinement startingfrom March 23rd, 2020. Remote interventions of psychiatrists and psychologists have been set up to help tunisiancitizens. The requestsconcerned panic attacks, acute stress disorder, sleepdisorders and relapse of some patients followed for mooddisorders, obsessive compulsive disorder or anxietydisorders.

We propose to present 3 types of interventions by apsychiatrist in response to the request of 3 Tunisiancitizensin this first experience.

We will summarize three interventions with the history of each patient and his or herrequest as well as the short term evolution of the presenteddisorder.

As a first experience, weresponded to numerousrequestsfrom people of all ages and living all over Tunisia. The first intervention concerned a lady whowasvolontarilyvomiting in order to maintainhercurrentweight.Shewasafraid of having the covid infectionrelated to a sore throat. The second situation is a gentleman whodid not toleratehome confinement because for 20 yearshe has been going out for adailywalk at exactly 4 pm. The thirdrequest came from a father living in a rural area who chose to self isolate in his room and refused to go out and seehischildrendespitetheir pressing demand. We offered active listening, reassurance and behavioural psychotherapy techniques.

Duringthis first experience in Tunisia, wefoundthatcitizens haveadhered to new communication techniques. Anxiety, stress and relapse of priormedical conditions were the mostfrequent diagnoses. Several interventions have proven to be effective despite obstacles related to teleconsultation.

No significant relationships.