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Review
. 2020 Dec 16:11:580225.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.580225. eCollection 2020.

Social and Psychophysiological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Extensive Literature Review

Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez  1   2   3 , Athanasios A Dalamitros  4 , Ana Isabel Beltran-Velasco  5 , Juan Mielgo-Ayuso  6 , Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera  1   3
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Review

Social and Psychophysiological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Extensive Literature Review

Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, now a global health crisis, has surprised health authorities around the world. Recent studies suggest that the measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak have generated issues throughout the population. Thus, it is necessary to establish and identify the possible risk factors related to the psychosocial and psychophysiological strain during the COVID-19 outbreak. The present extensive literature review assesses the social, psychological, and physiological consequences of COVID-19, reviewing the impact of quarantine measures, isolation, vast human loss, social and financial consequences in the family's economies, and its impact on the psychological health of the population. We also discussed the effect of psychophysiological factors, considering the impact of physical inactivity and modifications in nutritional habits, at psychological and physiological levels. The present review includes an actualized to date bibliography, articles for which were methodologically analyzed to verify they met the standards of quality and scientific accuracy. Authors understand the pandemic as a multifactorial event for which only a profound and extensive analysis would lead to better compression and efficient intervention in the near future.

Keywords: COVID-19; anxiety; depression; gut; nutrition; pandemic; physical activity; stress.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Common and less common physiological symptoms related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Possible psychological consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Social and psychophysiological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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