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Background
Psychiatric signs may be induced by the cytokine storm that is implicated in the immune response to coronavirus through neuro-inflammation. Survivors disclosed symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder, melancholy, anxiety, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. For the first year following the SARS disease, they generally s...
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... The COVID-19 pandemic left many sequelae on the mental health of the population, which has strongly affected health systems, the economy, and lifestyles in general. The population is currently more anxious, experiencing tension and other mental problems to varying degrees, generating many psychosocial implications (Aziz et al., 2025;Seighali et al., 2024). Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the main sequelae left by the pandemic, especially if a family member died (Baqir et al., 2024;Weeks et al., 2025); added to the other consequences brought about by the social isolation experienced for many months, such as anxiety (Al-Taie et al., 2024), depression (Matta et al., 2024), loneliness (Park & Park, 2024), insomnia , sadness (Baser et al., 2024), desperation (Ortiz-Prado et al., 2023), and suicidal ideation (Dobrin-De Grace et al., 2023;Madigan et al., 2023) often experienced, which was more evident in countries like Peru, which had an alarming number of infections and a high mortality rate, as one of the most affected populations in the world (Ramírez-Soto & Ortega-Cáceres, 2022). ...
