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BACKGROUND

On the 12th of March 2020, the World Health Organization classified the outbreak of COVID 19 as a pandemic; more than 3.5 million people were at that point infected by the virus and the number of confirmed deaths had passed 250,000. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects the men-tal health of people through both direct pathways (eg, fear of attracting the virus or fear of experi-encing serious health consequences) and indirect pathways (eg, fear resulting from the economic crisis or depressive symptoms caused by social isolation) resulting in anxiety, stress and depressive symptoms (Torales, O’Higgins, Castaldelli-Maia, & Ventriglio, 2020). Although the pandemic is global, it appears that each country has developed its own way of managing the crisis, for example by en-forcing a lockdown or by calling more upon citizens’ responsibilities to take appropriate hygienic measures within an intelligent lockdown.