Eduardo Castellanos

Professor Guenzel

Research Digital Paper Trail:

How people with schizophrenia are put at risk of being affected most by the virus due to
smoking, hygienic activity, and more:
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/46/4/752/5826166

Research on if people with SMI are more likely to contact Covid-19:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/severe-mental-illness-and-risks-from-covid-19/

How the social distancing aspect and insufficient hygienic practices of the mental health,
specifically schizophrenic population, effect them in amidst a pandemic:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2764227

How each country is responding to aiding the mental health populations:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30153-X/fulltext

Case study of a man who’s paranoid psychosis was affected by Covid-19:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7162758/

Whether or not studying schizophrenia is even worth notice in the pandemic:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996420302097

Interview with Vivian Martorell of Aheb Rehabiltation Clinic, a local outpatient healthcare
provider for persons with SMI - This interview will allow research into how the outpatient
healthcare providers are adapting to a social distanced society, while also attempting to
connect with their patients

How mental health illness can effect a person’s awarenesso of the current situation
occurring: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178120317200

This paper explains the effects of Covid-19 paranoia and stress on persons with
Obessive Compulsive Disorder:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00720/full

A paragraph or two later in the paper discuss how mental health patient’s are recieving
less care and less access to healthcare clinics that they rely on:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215036620303072
Study in Spain on whether people with SMD are affected greatly by anxiety due to the
Covid-19 pandemic:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996420304096

A PDF file of two case studies observing two mentally ill patients and how the pandemic
effected their mental state, with oneo f them attempting suicide with the predominant
factor in his attmept being the pandemic paranoia caused by his illness.
file:///Users/edcastellanos/Downloads/dnb_vol32_no2_294.pdf

How psychiatrists can integrate mental illness patients in a socially distanced society:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270773/

How China is tackling treating SMI patients online, and that most patients are low to
moderate income, and may not have access to online treatment:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271098/

How the pandemic is spreading rapidly throughout the homeless population, which is
largely people with SMI: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-
2667(20)30053-0/fulltext

Very detailed overview of both how schizphrenics’ mental health is effected by Covid-19
and how they are more susceptible:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197583/

Highlights the already neglected physical health of SMI person’s and I can relate this to
how it may affect them worse than the normal person:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5269495/

Discusses the inequality in healthcare quality between SMI patients and non-SMI
patients, might be very useful in highlighting the that schizophrenic patients may nor
recieve the same amount of healthcare attention with Covid-19:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359786810382058

Social isolation is a major reason why many schizophrenic patients commit suicide:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10401230591002156

Psychiatric hospital wards are crowded and easy for virus to spread, a pdf:
file:///Users/edcastellanos/Downloads/Zhu2020_Article_TheRiskAndPreventionOfNovelC
or.pdf

Protocols and procedure recommendations for telemedicine for SMI patients:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp2003539

Medications for schizophrenia linked to replication of coronavirus strains:

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/37/1/101/1930026

The abstract details that people with higher social circles and access are more likey to
respond with high satisfaction in their recovery, which the pandemic’s social distancing
guidelines interjects: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10597-004-6125-5

Evidence of benefit from telecommunication therapy in SMI patients:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/070674370805301109

Survey about people afflicted with SMI being paranoid, or worried about how the
pandemic with affect their health care:
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.202000245

Highlights the need to help the mental health illness with addressing the virus with
things like free testing and isolating cases in nursing homes as to not spread:
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1141

Gives key points on the psychological impact of quarantine on the general population, I
can relate this to how this must affect the mental health population due to their already
unstable mental health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620304608

Links schizophrenia and tobacco smoking:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996405000757

Links smoking to higher risk of contracting covid-19 and dying from it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083240/

Shows that stigma is not a large factor in seeking help, so the only prevention for mental
health rehabilitation in the pandemici s access:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/what-is-the-
impact-of-mental-healthrelated-stigma-on-helpseeking-a-systematic-review-of-
quantitative-and-qualitative-studies/E3FD6B42EE9815C4E26A6B84ED7BD3AE