Evidence Synthesis of Digital Interventions to Mitigate the Negative Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Mental Health: Rapid Meta-review

Christian Rauschenberg   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Anita Schick   ^{1 *} , PhD, Dipl-Psych ;   Dusan Hirjak   ³ , MD ;   Andreas Seidler   ⁴ , MD, MPH ;   Isabell Paetzold   ¹ , MSc ;   Christian Apfelbacher   ⁵ , PhD, Dr sc hum, MSc, MA ;   Steffi G Riedel-Heller   ⁶ , MD, MPH ;   Ulrich Reininghaus   ^{1, 7, 8} , PhD, MSc, Dipl-Psych

¹ Department of Public Mental Health, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

² Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

³ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

⁴ Institute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

⁵ Institute of Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

⁶ Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

⁷ Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁸ ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, King´s College London, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally