Table 5.

Collections of guidance about mental health and COVID-19.

Type	Group or organization	Publication	Dates	Methodology	Key aims and web link (if applicable)	Country or language
Collection	—a	Sugarman and Busch [40] 2023	Up to February 23, 2022	Systematic search of reviews/meta-analyses Narrative review of guidelines	Systematic review of tele–mental health or telepsychiatry reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses Narrative review of the guidelines regarding tele–mental health from several relevant major mental health organizations	English-language resources
Collection	—	Bojdani et al [32] 2020	Published in May 2020	Narrative review combined with informal survey and discussions with colleagues	Narrative review and PubMed search of the guidelines available in the United States for mental health issues related to COVID-19	United States
Collection	—	Rangaswamy et al [37] 2022	Published in October 2022	Narrative review combined with expert opinions from informal sessions, talks, and interviews	Narrative review of Indian mental health care services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the guidelines issued	India
Collection	—	Molebatsi et al [35] 2021	Published in May 2021	Web-based search for relevant health guidelines, with emails to request guidelines from mental health practitioners in various sub-Saharan African countries, and expert opinions from interviews	Narrative summary of sub-Saharan African guidelines regarding mental health and psychological support in response to COVID-19	Sub-Saharan African countries
Collection	—	Choi et al [34] 2020	Published in September 2020	Narrative review of guidelines	Narrative review of recommendations or guidelines for pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic, supplemented by the authors’ recommendations for clinical practice	English-language resources
Collection	—	Alqahtani et al [31] 2021	2020	Narrative review of guidelines	Narrative review of existing guidelines for telepsychology services to inform and adapt to Saudi Arabia and other Arabic communities	Saudi Arabia
Collection	—	Samy et al [38] 2021	2020 and 2021	Web-based search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar	Narrative review of primary studies and guidelines regarding mental health and COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific region	Asia-Pacific region
Collection	—	Purushothaman et al [36] 2020	2020	Narrative review of research databases and existing guidelines	Narrative review of guidelines regarding anesthesia during ECTb and its status within aerosol-generating procedures, supplemented by the authors’ recommendations about ECT and use of PPEc	English-language resources
Collection	Individual members of the Network of Early Career Professionals working in Addiction Medicine	Scheibein et al [39] 2020	6 months following the COVID-19 pandemic	Narrative review of guidelines	Narrative review of country-level guidelines regarding addiction medicine developed in the 6 months following the COVID-19 pandemic	Worldwide

^aNot reported.

^bECT: electroconvulsive therapy.

^cPPE: personal protective equipment.