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Accepted monitoring or endured quarantine? Ebola contacts' perceptions in Senegal.
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Ethnographic results show that, even when contacts adhere rather than comply to containment through coercion, contact monitoring raises several ethical issues and should contribute to the ethics debate about individual rights versus crisis public health measures.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contact tracing & Ebola virus.read more
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The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence.
Samantha K Brooks,Rebecca K. Webster,Louise E. Smith,Lisa Woodland,Simon Wessely,Neil Greenberg,Gideon James Rubin +6 more
TL;DR: A review of the psychological impact of quarantine using three electronic databases is presented in this article, where the authors report negative psychological effects including post-traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger.
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Mental health consequences during the initial stage of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Spain.
Clara González-Sanguino,Berta Ausín,Miguel Ángel Castellanos,Jesús Saiz,Aída López-Gómez,Carolina Ugidos,Manuel Muñoz +6 more
TL;DR: Predictive models revealed that the greatest protector for symptomatology was spiritual well-being, while loneliness was the strongest predictor of depression, anxiety and PTSD.
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The psychological impact of COVID-19 on the mental health in the general population.
TL;DR: This work aimed to comprehensively review the current literature about the impact of COVID-19 infection on the mental health in the general population and the role of risk and protective factors against the potential to develop psychiatric disorders in vulnerable individuals has been addressed.
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Life in the pandemic: Social isolation and mental health.
TL;DR: Modern quarantine strategies have been imposed globally in an attempt to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 infection including short- to medium-term lockdowns, voluntary home curfew, restriction on the assembly of groups of people, cancellation of planned social and public events, closure of mass transit systems, and other travel restrictions.
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How to improve adherence with quarantine: Rapid review of the evidence
Rebecca K. Webster,Samantha K Brooks,Louise E. Smith,Lisa Woodland,Simon Wessely,G. James Rubin +5 more
TL;DR: People vary in their adherence to quarantine during infectious disease outbreaks, and public health officials should provide a timely, clear rationale for quarantine and information about protocols to increase the perceived benefit that engaging in quarantine will have on public health.
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Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease (EVD): a review
TL;DR: It is shown that mathematical modeling offers useful insights into the risk of a major epidemic of EVD and the assessment of the impact of basic public health measures on disease spread.
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The methodological dynamism of grounded theory
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Ebola and Marburg virus disease epidemics: preparedness, alert, control, and evaluation
TL;DR: The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries as mentioned in this paper.