Risk of medicalization of emotional responses after quarantine because of COVID-19: Chronicle of an avoidable crisis

Risk of medicalization of emotional responses after quarantine because of COVID-19: Chronicle of an avoidable crisis

Juan D. Molina, Gabriel Rubio, Francisco López Muñoz

Quarantine has been the most general response of all countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2). There are sufficient studies on the complications that quarantine causes in the population. The severity of emotional responses derived from quarantine depends on several factors, which can occur during or after the quarantine; the present work aims to analyze the consequences of the medicalization process of emotional responses during the quarantine period and its social aspects.

2020

covid-19, Salud mental, España, medicalización de las respuestas emocionales

Biotemas

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Public aspects of medicine, Medicine (General), Social sciences (General)