Psychological Status and Correlated Factors of Primary Medical Staff During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Hefei City, China

Song Wang; Rui-Chen Gao; Rui Li; Guo-Cui Wu

doi:10.2147/JMDH.S289336

Psychological Status and Correlated Factors of Primary Medical Staff During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Hefei City, China

J Multidiscip Healthc. 2021 Mar 31:14:751-756. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S289336. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Song Wang^#¹, Rui-Chen Gao^#², Rui Li^#³, Guo-Cui Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ Lianhua Community Health Service Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China.
² School of Nursing, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Hospital Infection Management, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the mental illness and correlated factors of primary medical staff during the COVID-19 outbreak in Hefei city, China.

Methods: A total of 180 primary medical staff were randomly selected from seven community hospitals in Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone as a study group. One hundred and eighty-two health people were recruited as the control group. The self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Psychological questionnaire of public health emergencies were distributed to them for evaluation.

Results: The score of SAS, SDS in study group was higher than that in control group [(35.57±10.39) vs (31.31±7.98); (44.16±8.46) vs (41.47±9.47)] (t=4.371, P< 0.001; t=2.849, P=0.005). The fear subscale and total score in the psychological questionnaire of sudden public health events were negatively correlated with age (r=-0.216, P=0.004; r=-0.154, P=0.039). Marriage was negatively correlated with depression subscales in psychological questionnaires of SAS, SDS and sudden public health events (r=-0.184, P=0.013; r=-0.298, P<0.001; r=-0.161, P=0.031; r=-0.147, P=0.049). Education level was positively correlated with the total score of a psychological questionnaire for sudden public health events (r=0.151, P=0.043); Logistic regression analysis showed that marital status was a protective factor of psychological abnormality.

Conclusion: It is necessary to pay attention to the psychological status of primary medical staff, especially the young unmarried medical staff.

Keywords: anxiety; depressed; doctor; novel coronavirus pneumonia; nurse.

Grants and funding

Humanities Research Center Project of Anhui Medical University (No. YJSK202017). Doctoral Research Project of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (No.BSKY2019037).