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Impact of COVID-19 on the Clinical Picture and Therapy of
Schizophrenia
Nadir A. Aliyev
1*
, Teymur A. Qafarov
1
, Agahasan R. Rasulov
1
, Eldar R. Hagverdi
1
and Zafar N. Aliyev
2
1
Department of Psychiatry and Drug Addiction, Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2
Azerbaijan Medical University, department of psychiatry Baku, Azerbaijan.
*Corresponding Author: Nadir A. Aliyev, Department of Psychiatry and Drug Addiction, Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute, Baku,
Azerbaijan.
Received date: January 10, 2022; Accepted date: January 28, 2022; Published date: February 08, 2022
Citation: Nadir A. Aliyev, Teymur A. Qafarov, Agahasan R. Rasulov, Eldar R. Hagverdi and Zafar N. Aliyev. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on the
Clinical Picture and Therapy of Schizophrenia. J Clinical Research and Reports, 10(3); DOI:10.31579/2690-1919/229
Copyright: © 2022, Nadir A. Aliyev. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
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Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was a retrospective study of the contingent of schizophrenia patients who were most
infected with COVID-19.
Materials and Methods: We study 350 patients schizophrenia who infected with COVID-19 impact on the clinical
picture and therapy of the illness. The investigation ware carried out in psychiatric hospital Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Azerbaijan. The hospital has a capacity of 2000 beds.
Results: patients with schizophrenia who infected with COVID-19 in these clinically observed following changes:
the intensity of psychopathological symptoms decreases, psychosomatic balancing occurs, that is, during the COVID-
19 illness, schizophrenic symptoms fade into the background, practically become invisible.
Conclusion: Patients schizophrenia who infected with COVID-19 in these clinically observed shows an
improvement in their mental health.
Keywords: schizophrenia; infected with COVID-19; psychopathological symptoms; hospital setting
Introduction
Current statistics on coronavirus as of 01/08/2022 (worldwide)
Total infections 303 984 489
Fatalities 5,499,350 (1.8%)
Recovered 258 408 209 (85.0%)
Now 40,076,930 are ill (13.2%)
Current statistics on coronavirus as of 8.01.2022 (Azerbaijan)
Population 10,278 thous.
Total infections 620 679 6.0%
Fatalities 8,437 1.4%
Recovered 605,058 97.4%
Now 7 184 are ill (1.2%)
COVID-19 Pandemic causes numerous mental disorders. In our early
studies, we showed the mental disorders caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
[1-5].
Materials and methods
We searched eight databases with search terms relating to COVID-19 and
schizophrenia:
MEDLINE
PreMEDLINE
Cochrane Library
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/
https://scholar.google.com
https://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp
http://www.nejm.org
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Research Article
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