Scientific production on COVID-19 in Brazil: a scoping review
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Journal Article, Coronavirus Infections, COVID-19, Pandemics, Scoping ReviewAbstract
Introduction: The national scientific production on COVID-19 has an immediate role in developing policies to tackle the disease and in guiding clinical decisions. Objective: To identify and characterize the scientific production on topics related to COVID-19 in Brazil in national journals from articles published between December 1, 2019, and May 2, 2020. Method: Scoping review, whose search for articles occurred in the SciELO Collection Brazil and on the websites of journal Visa em Debate and Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. The validated database was assessed by a simple quantitative analysis to provide numerical summaries of the characteristics of interest in the literature included in the review. Results: 58 (20.8%) articles from 22 national journals were included. The largest number of articles came from journals that developed fast publishing options or that had been adopting a continuous flow publication model (n = 45, 77.6%). The articles were framed in four categories, among seven defined: Comment (n = 43, 74.1%), Descriptive study (n = 8, 13.8%), Literature review (n = 6, 10.4 %) and Analytical study (n = 1, 1.7%). Only one systematic review was found and the analytical study was classified as an ecological study. April concentrated 86.2% of the articles published, with the peak of publications occurring on April 9 (8 articles). Among 58 articles, “Social isolation, mental health and other aspects related to social behaviours” was the most prevalent theme (n = 14, 24.1%). Conclusions: This scoping review produced a map of scientific production on COVID-19 in Brazil. There are important gaps, especially concerning randomized clinical trials and cohort studies, which need to be filled on further research in our country.
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