Impact on mental health and perceptions of psychological care among medical and nursing staff in Wuhan during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak: A cross-sectional study

Autor: Ying Wang, Simeng Ma, Min Chen, Zhongxiang Cai, Kerang Zhang, Bing Xiang Yang, Hanping Bai, Jun Yang, Ruiting Li, Ci Ma, Zhongchun Liu, Lijun Kang, Shaohua Hu, Lihua Yao, Gaohua Wang
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Cross-sectional study
Psychological intervention
Nurses
Disease
Anxiety
Patient Health Questionnaire
Psychological Distress
Health Services Accessibility
Disease Outbreaks
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Surveys and Questionnaires
Epidemiology
Adaptation
Psychological
Medicine
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Depression
Middle Aged
Anxiety Disorders
Mental Health
Female
medicine.symptom
Coronavirus Infections
Adult
Mental Health Services
medicine.medical_specialty
China
Adolescent
Immunology
Pneumonia
Viral
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
Young Adult
Physicians
Humans
Pandemics
Depressive Disorder
business.industry
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Mental health
030104 developmental biology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Family medicine
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
ISSN: 1090-2139
Popis: The severe 2019 outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first reported in Wuhan, would be expected to impact the mental health of local medical and nursing staff and thus lead them to seek help. However, those outcomes have yet to be established using epidemiological data. To explore the mental health status of medical and nursing staff and the efficacy, or lack thereof, of critically connecting psychological needs to receiving psychological care, we conducted a quantitative study. This is the first paper on the mental health of medical and nursing staff in Wuhan. Notably, among 994 medical and nursing staff working in Wuhan, 36.9% had subthreshold mental health disturbances (mean PHQ-9: 2.4), 34.4% had mild disturbances (mean PHQ-9: 5.4), 22.4% had moderate disturbances (mean PHQ-9: 9.0), and 6.2% had severe disturbance (mean PHQ-9: 15.1) in the immediate wake of the viral epidemic. The noted burden fell particularly heavily on young women. Of all participants, 36.3% had accessed psychological materials (such as books on mental health), 50.4% had accessed psychological resources available through media (such as online push messages on mental health self-help coping methods), and 17.5% had participated in counseling or psychotherapy. Trends in levels of psychological distress and factors such as exposure to infected people and psychological assistance were identified. Although staff accessed limited mental healthcare services, distressed staff nonetheless saw these services as important resources to alleviate acute mental health disturbances and improve their physical health perceptions. These findings emphasize the importance of being prepared to support frontline workers through mental health interventions at times of widespread crisis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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