Background: The 2014-16 Ebola virus disease epidemic negatively influenced the lives of survivors, thus necessitating further evaluation of their mental health. Community lockdowns during the EVD epidemic caused feelings like fear, anxiety, worry, and dark memories of events. Obj...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i4643
Background: The psychosocial impact of infectious diseases outbreaks such as the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease epidemic and the 2019-23 COVID-19 pandemic, and people’s survival required strict infection prevention and control interventions which disrupted their lifestyles, causing...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i3640
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and the infection prevention measures disrupted socio-economic activities, which negatively impacted the physical and mental health of individuals. These impacts caused anxiety, stress, depression and nightmares, which were indicative of psychoso...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i4641
The economic and psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the mental wellbeing and satisfaction with life of the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease survivors who are living in Victoria-Australia. The pandemic caused job losses and reduced income which according to...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i3637
Introduction: The ongoing research has been on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, from the lens of West African migrants in Australia who witnessed a prior Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic. The study has been based on seven questions (7-RQ) that were separately discussed, and the...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i3636
Background: This qualitative study reports on an array of phenomena which includes, past trauma, strongest memory of events, the influence of surviving the EVD epidemic, social supports during both disease outbreaks. It also covers coping strategies during the EVD epidemic and CO...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i3634
Background: Memories of outbreaks such as the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and COVID-19 are challenging for survivors. Actions such as lockdowns exacerbate mental health conditions leading to post traumatic stress disorder. These outbreaks left lasting psychological effects on survi...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i3635
Background: This study investigated how the West Africans who survived Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic 10-years ago, but now living in Australia, perceived the psychosocial impact of COVID-19. Objective: The objective of this report is to narratively describe the demographic c...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i2627
Background: The impacts of the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic on West Africans who survived these events were dire and therefore required social support interventions to ease the pain. Objective: To determine the levels of support which 2014-16 EVD...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i2624
Background: Trauma from previous experiences such as car accidents, robberies, knife attacks, wars, and other types of violence or witnessing the deaths could have exacerbated the experiences of the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Epidemic. Objective: To study past trauma exper...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i2626
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread infection control and prevention interventions. These interventions did not only disrupt normal life activities but caused emotional and psychosocial pain, which lead to anxiety, fear of infection, stress, and distress, a...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i12598
This scoping review examines the psychosocial impacts of the 2014-16 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic on West African populations, focusing on trauma, social support, and coping mechanisms. Using systematic database searches across multiple databases and appraisals with the McM...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i12597
Introduction: Improvements in transportation has increased the risk of rapid infection transmission within communities and globally during outbreaks. Examples are the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa in 2014-2016 and the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022, tha...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i12594
Background: COVID-19 pandemic caused some obvious psychosocial distress in virtually all aspects and works of life. This has led to massive volumes of research. Yet, concerns for preparedness against future disease outbreak remains. One of such concerns is around mental health ca...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i12595
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted among others on physical and mental health, and this is profound and, projected to persist for a long period. The impact was compounded by measures such as social distancing and community lockdowns especially in Victoria, Australia to co...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2024/v25i12596