Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about major changes in the lifestyle of the world population. Due to the lack of vaccines or a definitive treatment for disease, governments around the world have adopted social isolation and quarantine as methods to control the spread of the virus. Objective: Thus, the objective of this study was to discuss how social isolation and quarantine periods affected people's mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic between March and September 2020, establishing the following guiding question: How did social isolation and quarantine affect the mental health and quality of life of the population in the COVID-19 pandemic? Results: The final sample consisted of nineteen (19) articles, two (2) addressed depression during the pandemic period, three (3) presented the pandemic and the relationship with sociodemographic aspects, five (5) analyzed mental health in the pandemic, four (4) reported the impact of COVID-19 on the population's style and quality of life and the last five (5) demonstrated the quality of human relationships and emotional aspects in the face of the pandemic. Conclusion: It was demonstrated that isolation and the quarantine period had a negative impact on the population's quality of life and long-term mental health.
Highlights
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the COVID- 19 outbreak as a pandemic, recognizing that the disease was a public health crisis, but a problem that would affect all sectors and, concerned with the alarming levels and severity of patients, reaffirmed that countries should adopt a strategic approach to preventing infections, saving lives and minimizing impact (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020)
It has been demonstrated that isolation and the quarantine period have a significant impact on the mental health and quality of life of the population
Senior students, and health professionals as the main affected during the pandemic
Summary
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the COVID- 19 outbreak as a pandemic, recognizing that the disease was a public health crisis, but a problem that would affect all sectors and, concerned with the alarming levels and severity of patients, reaffirmed that countries should adopt a strategic approach to preventing infections, saving lives and minimizing impact (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020). By mid-March 2020, cases had already been reported in 135 countries, covering all continents, approximately three months after the first case recorded in China (Baud et al, 2020). In Brazil, the first case was registered in February 2020, in a Brazilian recently arrived from Italy and was widely reported by the Ministry of Health. By the end of March, the country had 2915 confirmed cases and 77 deaths due to coronavirus (Rodriguez-Morales et al, 2020; Prazeres et al, 2020). As of November 9, 2020, Brazil had 5,590,025 confirmed cases and 161,106 deaths (Ministry of Health, 2020)
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