Alternative mental health therapies in prolonged lockdowns: narratives from Covid-19

Health Technol (Berl). 2021;11(5):1101-1107. doi: 10.1007/s12553-021-00581-3. Epub 2021 Aug 7.

Abstract

Identify and review alternative (home-based) therapies for prolonged lockdowns. Interdisciplinary study using multi-method approach - case study, action research, grounded theory. Only secondary data has been used in this study. Epistemological framework based on a set of digital humanities tools. The set of tools are based on publicly available, open access technological solutions, enabling generalisability of the findings. Alternative therapies can be integrated in healthcare systems as home-based solutions operating on low-cost technologies.

Keywords: Alternative therapies; Art Therapy; Covid-19; Disease X.