Health awareness and self-care are key variables that influence the health-oriented behavioral repertoire of people who face extraordinary situations, such as epidemics or pandemics caused by new viral diseases.
At the end of 2019, a picture of atypical pneumonia became increasingly apparent, and later it was officially called SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19 disease. Until October 2021, this viral condition has caused 4,922,065 deaths and 242,033,650 contagions worldwide via human-human transmission. To prevent its spread, countries have instituted different individual, social, and community measures. An example of this was isolation, which has caused the closure of cities, borders, and the confinement of people at their homes during the acute situation of the pandemic, and in some places, along different waves.
Although quarantine measures have been essential to diminish the number of contagions while avoiding the collapse of countries' health systems, these measures may, in turn, impact the incorporation and modification of peoples' health habits, and therefore, influence their wellbeing and stress perception. This implies that the effects of the COVID-19 are not limited to medical issues since the virus has caused important sociological, psychological, and economic consequences worldwide, which may or may not last beyond the pandemic. Therefore, organizing a body of scientific evidence that allows understanding the usefulness of the psychological resources implemented in the current pandemic will be essential to be adapted in future situations that compromise population's public health.
The simultaneous occurrence of behavioral changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and their consequent positive or negative outcomes may stimulate or discourage individuals and, therefore, lead to adherence or abandonment of their self-care behaviors.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions inquiring on the implementation of self-care repertoires oriented at mitigating the effects of COVID-19 that have affected the mental health of the citizens. In addition, we will encourage the studies exploring strategies, both at individual and community level aimed to allow to individuals (children, adolescents adults or any other specific population) to manage social isolation, stress, and their detrimental effects on health and well-being. Likewise, we are eager to include works that emphasize pieces of evidence about how the pandemic context may facilitate the implementation of self-care behaviors in people that, once adhered to, make it possible to face other situations that threaten their physical health and mental status.
The current research topic aims to collect original multidisciplinary contributions (research articles, reviews, methods, or protocols) from fields such as health, clinical, and social-community psychology, nursing, medicine, neuroscience, or sociology. Such contributions must provide relevant evidence about the factors learned by people during the pandemic that compromised their health and their ways of coping with it, which is essential to face in future situations that affect their physical and mental health.
Health awareness and self-care are key variables that influence the health-oriented behavioral repertoire of people who face extraordinary situations, such as epidemics or pandemics caused by new viral diseases.
At the end of 2019, a picture of atypical pneumonia became increasingly apparent, and later it was officially called SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19 disease. Until October 2021, this viral condition has caused 4,922,065 deaths and 242,033,650 contagions worldwide via human-human transmission. To prevent its spread, countries have instituted different individual, social, and community measures. An example of this was isolation, which has caused the closure of cities, borders, and the confinement of people at their homes during the acute situation of the pandemic, and in some places, along different waves.
Although quarantine measures have been essential to diminish the number of contagions while avoiding the collapse of countries' health systems, these measures may, in turn, impact the incorporation and modification of peoples' health habits, and therefore, influence their wellbeing and stress perception. This implies that the effects of the COVID-19 are not limited to medical issues since the virus has caused important sociological, psychological, and economic consequences worldwide, which may or may not last beyond the pandemic. Therefore, organizing a body of scientific evidence that allows understanding the usefulness of the psychological resources implemented in the current pandemic will be essential to be adapted in future situations that compromise population's public health.
The simultaneous occurrence of behavioral changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and their consequent positive or negative outcomes may stimulate or discourage individuals and, therefore, lead to adherence or abandonment of their self-care behaviors.
In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions inquiring on the implementation of self-care repertoires oriented at mitigating the effects of COVID-19 that have affected the mental health of the citizens. In addition, we will encourage the studies exploring strategies, both at individual and community level aimed to allow to individuals (children, adolescents adults or any other specific population) to manage social isolation, stress, and their detrimental effects on health and well-being. Likewise, we are eager to include works that emphasize pieces of evidence about how the pandemic context may facilitate the implementation of self-care behaviors in people that, once adhered to, make it possible to face other situations that threaten their physical health and mental status.
The current research topic aims to collect original multidisciplinary contributions (research articles, reviews, methods, or protocols) from fields such as health, clinical, and social-community psychology, nursing, medicine, neuroscience, or sociology. Such contributions must provide relevant evidence about the factors learned by people during the pandemic that compromised their health and their ways of coping with it, which is essential to face in future situations that affect their physical and mental health.
