@article{ref1,
title="Proposal to apply a "Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA)" based approach to manage the COVID-19-related mental health problems in the era of long COVID",
journal="Global health and medicine",
year="2024",
author="Sun, Kai and Zhou, Rongfeng and Xu, Fang and Lu, Hongzhou and Asakawa, Tetsuya",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="160-163",
abstract="Long COVID (LC)-related health problems are highly concerned. Many patients seem to have &quot;recovered&quot; from an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, however, they might experience various symptoms, almost involving all organs and systems. Of those, neuropsychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not rare. These problems significantly impact the quality of life (QOL) of patients, family, and caregivers, even lead a tragic suicide outcome. Other than the conventional psychological and medical approaches, here, we proposal a positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (PERMA)-based approach to fight against these COVID-19-related mental health problems (CRMHPs). This approach is characterized by positive psychological interventions and self-achievements, which has been proved to be a powerful tool against mood disorders in common people. Nowadays, abolishment of certain prophylactic measures (such as isolation, lockdown, compulsorily wearing a mask and maintaining social distance, measures to avoid crowding) enables us to have more opportunities to contact patients and implement the PERMA-based approach to the patients with CRMHPs. We believe that application of PERMA-based approach is conducive to alleviate the influence of the CRMHPs and improve their QOL.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2434-9186",
doi="10.35772/ghm.2023.01102",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01102"
}