PSYCHOLOGICAL CARE FOR SCHOOL-AGE PATIENTS WITH CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN THE HOSPITAL

For the first time in pediatric practice, the psychological state of 100 children (7-17 years old) with COVID-19 in the state of hospitalization was studied on the basis of the Scientific Medical Research Center of Children's Health of the Russian Ministry of Health Care and the directions of psychological and pedagogical assistance were determined. Analysis of medical and psychological-pedagogical documentation, conversation, observation, screening diagnostics were conducted. It was established that according to the totality of physical and psychological factors (the main psychological difficulty) patients can be grouped into the following groups: children in a severe physical state, with unstable manifestations of mental activity (n = 4; 4%); children in a predominantly moderately severe state with significant distress related to the disease (n = 48; 48%); children in a satisfactory physical state, with mild and mostly situational difficulties in adapting to the situation of hospitalization (n = 46; 46%); children in a satisfactory physical state, in a relatively stable positive psychological state (n = 2; 2%). Consideration of the severity of their physical and psychological condition and their basic psychological difficulties allows differentiated psychological aid to be rendered to children and teenagers in special conditions of the «red zone».