Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the world, and its deleterious effects on human domestic life, society, economics, and especially on human mental health are expected to continue. Mental health experts highlighted health issues this pandemic may cause, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mind–body intervention, such as mindfulness meditation, has accumulated sufficient empirical evidence supporting the efficacy in improving human mental health states and the use for this purpose has been increasing. Notably, some of these interventions have already been tried in the form of telemedicine or eHealth. Korea, located adjacent to China, was exposed to COVID-19 from a relatively early stage, and today it is evaluated to have been successful in controlling this disease. “The COVID-19 telemedicine center of Korean medicine” has treated more than 20% of the confirmed COVID-19 patients in Korea with telemedicine since 9 March 2020. The center used telemedicine and mind–body modalities (including mindfulness meditation) to improve the mental health of patients diagnosed with COVID-19. In this paper, the telemedicine manual is introduced to provide insights into the development of mental health interventions for COVID-19 and other large-scale disasters in the upcoming new-normal era.
Highlights
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the world, and its deleterious effects on human domestic life, society, economics, and especially on human mental health are expected to continue
The aim of this paper is to introduce the Korean medicine (KM) doctor’s mental health instruction manual in telemedicine for COVID-19 and to provide insights into the development of mental-health interventions for COVID-19 patients and large-scale disasters in the upcoming “new-normal” era
Target Population it could be applied to people who were self-contained in contact with the confirmed patient, the family and acquaintances of the confirmed patient, and the general public complaining of anxiety related to COVID-19
Summary
Strategies to cope with with the physical health impact of COVID-19 were were gradually explored, explored, the impact of this pandemic on human families, society, economics, and especially on the the impact of this pandemic on human families, society, economics, and especially on the mental mental health of individuals, are expected to continue [5,6,7]. the. COVID-19 to concerns over the spread of the virus, several healthcare providers are looking for ways to use makes it impossible for patients with various diseases to visit a clinic directly for face-to-face care telemedicine instead [12]. The center uses established in the early 1950s, at Daegu Korean Medicine Hospital, Daegu, Korea, where the number herbal medicine (mainly Qing-Fei-Pai-Du-Tang) with established protocols based on of COVID-19 patients increased rapidly. Qing-Fei-Pai-Du-Tang) with established protocols based multidisciplinary discussions improve the mental health of COVID-19 patients in Korea. KM doctor’s mental health instruction manual in used telemedicine for COVID-19 and to provide modalities (including mindfulness meditation) to improve the mental health of COVID-19 patients in Korea. Treating more than 20% of confirmed COVID-19 patients in Korea with telemedicine since 9 March
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