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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3031</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.SP52</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Paranoia Among Children Due to COVID-19 Outbreak&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Suresh</surname><given-names>Charanya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Roy</surname><given-names>Anitha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P.</surname><given-names>Muralidharan N.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>3</day><month>11</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>D-</volume><issue>em</issue><fpage>74</fpage><lpage>78</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim and Background: The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has caused universal psychosocial effects due to mass hysteria, economic burden, and financial losses along with its high infectivity and fatality rates. COVID-19 mass fear, called __ampersandsignldquo;coronaphobia,__ampersandsignrdquo; has created a multitude of psychiatric manifestations across the various strata of society. So this analysis was carried out to describe the psychological impact of COVID-19 on people, more specifically children. Materials and Methods: The following main words are searched for PubMed and Google Scholar: __ampersandsignldquo;COVID-19,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;SARS-CoV2,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Pandemic,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Psychology,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Psychology,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Psychiatry,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Marginalized,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Telemedicine,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Mental Health,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Quarantine,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Infodemic,__ampersandsignrdquo; __ampersandsignldquo;Social Media__ampersandsignrdquo; and __ampersandsignldquo;Internet.__ampersandsignrdquo; There were also several newspaper stories pertaining to COVID-19 and psychosocial impacts added as per context. Results and Discussion: Long-term acute panic, anxiety, repetitive habits, hoarding, hysteria, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be triggered by the disease itself compounded by compulsory quarantine to fight COVID-19 introduced by national lockdowns. These were fuelled by an __ampersandsignldquo;infodemic__ampersandsignrdquo; spread through various social media platforms. Communitybased COVID-19 prevention services can interrupt the normal lifestyle of children, and can cause florid mental distress. Children__ampersandsignrsquo;s psychosocial factors are influenced in many ways by this pandemic and require special consideration. Conclusion: Psychosocial crisis management and intervention models should be implemented urgently by the government, health care professionals, and other stakeholders in order to better cope with these psychosocial problems from various strata of society. The use of internet resources, technology, and social media in order to combat both pandemic and infodemic needs to be introduced. Psychosocial preparedness by the establishment of mental organizations specific for future pandemics is certainly necessary&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Anxiety</kwd><kwd> Children</kwd><kwd> Paranoia</kwd><kwd> Psychological impact</kwd><kwd> COVID-19</kwd><kwd> Pandemic</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
