The Psychological Impact of the SARS Epidemic on Hospital Employees in China: Exposure, Risk Perception, and Altruistic Acceptance of Risk
| Autor: | Zhiqiang Guan, Ezra Susser, Yunyun Fang, Zhongling Yao, Jin Lu, Cordelia J. Fuller, Ping Wu, Christina W. Hoven, Bin Fan, Xinhua Liu, Junhui Kong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Male China medicine.medical_specialty Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional media_common.quotation_subject Hospital Administrators Nursing Staff Hospital Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Risk Assessment Altruism Article Occupational safety and health Disease Outbreaks Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Beijing Environmental health Medical Staff Hospital Humans Medicine Mass Media Psychiatry media_common business.industry Outbreak Fear Middle Aged Cross-cultural studies Occupational Diseases Risk perception Psychiatry and Mental health Quarantine Female business Risk assessment |
| Zdroj: | The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 54:302-311 |
| ISSN: | 1497-0015 0706-7437 |
| Popis: | Objective: We examined the psychological impact of the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on hospital employees in Beijing, China. Methods: In 2006, randomly selected employees ( n = 549) of a hospital in Beijing were surveyed concerning their exposure to the 2003 SARS outbreak, and the ways in which the outbreak had affected their mental health. Results: About 10% of the respondents had experienced high levels of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms since the SARS outbreak. Respondents who had been quarantined, or worked in high-risk locations such as SARS wards, or had friends or close relatives who contracted SARS, were 2 to 3 times more likely to have high PTS symptom levels, than those without these exposures. Respondents' perceptions of SARS-related risks were significantly positively associated with PTS symptom levels and partially mediated the effects of exposure. Altruistic acceptance of work-related risks was negatively related to PTS levels. Conclusions: The psychological impact of stressful events related to an infectious disease outbreak may be mediated by peoples' perceptions of those events; altruism may help to protect some health care workers against these negative impacts. |
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