Methodology of environmental psychiatry in the study of stress associated with COVID-19

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic had a public effect and reflected the dominant fear in the public consciousness. WHO defined the scale of the global phenomenon as an emergency and infodemic. The loss of conditions for safe interaction was aggravated by restrictive anti-epidemic measures, forced changes in life patterns. This made it possible to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a medical and social phenomenon with the development of social stress disorders, COVID nosophobia and decrease in motivation to get vaccinated.