Servicio de Atención Psicológica en el Hospital Marina Baixa (SAPMB) durante la Pandemia Covid-19

Intervención psicológica en emergencia COVID-19.

Abstract

This paper develops the implementation of a psychological care service at Marina Baixa Hospital (Villajoyosa, Alicante), as well as detailing intervention carried out with differents types of affected, after start of COVID19 pandemic. Basis of implementation of service was the importance given to primary prevention, highlighting importance of emotional care for people and offering crisis intervention. Different objectives were proposed such as providing psychological support to both front-line personnel during pandemic, as well as to hospitalized people affected by virus or to their families. Emotional regulation interventions based on Mindfulness and telephone or face to face intervention were carried out with healthcare personnel, as well as telephone and face to face intervention, in some cases that required it, of patient admitted to both ward and intensive care unit. Number of users served in different intervention formats was recorded, which had to be adapted to needs detected in population served and to pandemic evolution. Results show that by creating this service objectives set were met.