A scoping review of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia

Tóm tắt

The COVID-19 pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity for scientists to accelerate their research and share their scientific results. This study was systematically searched and scoped studies with keywords of COVID-19 response and lessons from Southeast Asian countries by PRISMA-SCR for scoping review to summarize and disseminate research findings. The result of 956 articles were matched the search characteristics, in which Singapore was a country of the most researchs (329 articles, 34.4%), and the least is Timor Leste (2 articles, 0.2%). The cross-sectional descriptive studies were the most (391 articles, 40.9%) and Ideas, Editorials, Opinions were the rest (256 articles, 27.7%). The most researched topics were risk communication, community participation and disease management (314 articles, 32.8%), surveillance, epidemiological investigation, contact tracing, an adaptation of measures, public health, and society (327 articles, 34.2%); vaccines have very little research. The average number of articles published from May 2020 to June 2021 was 68.2 ± 10.7. The number of articles was uniform during the research period, with not too much variation. More intervention and case-control studies are needed to understand better and evaluate the effectiveness of current epidemic prevention measures in the region, especially more studies assessing vaccine efficacy.