Tools used in continuous mental health care in the context of COVID-19: an integrative review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i62p5082-5091Keywords:
Care, COVID-19, Mental HealthAbstract
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 brought challenges and changes that significantly influenced mental health care, where maintaining longitudinality, once a powerful assistance tool, has been a challenge for Family Health teams. This integrative review aims to search the literature for the means that can be used in PHC to minimize mental suffering due to the pandemic. The methodology adopted was the search for literature in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), by crossing the descriptors: "care" and "covid-19" and "mental health", with 347 articles being found. Through the inclusion and exclusion criteria the total sample was composed of 4 works. It was observed that the use of light technologies has been used to minimize the psychological effects caused by the pandemic, either to patients affected by the virus or the population that seeks alternative means to maintain mental health.