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Background Front-line medical staff are an important group in fighting against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and their mental health should not be ignored.ObjectiveThis study investigates the current situation and influencing factors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among front-line anti-epidemic medical staff during COVID-19 epidemic.MethodsMedical staff who had participated in fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic wereselected from three grade III Class A hospitals and four grade II Class A hospitals in a city of Hubei Province by convenient sampling method in May 2020. The survey was conducted online using the Post-traumatic Stress Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) as the main survey tool to investigate current situation and characteristics of PTSD among these participants. A total of 1120 questionnaires were collected, of which 1071 were valid, and the effective rate was 95.6%.ResultsOf the 1071 participants, the average age was (32.59±5.21) years; the ratio of male to female was 1: 5.02; the ratio of doctor to nurse was 1:5.8; nearly 70% participants came from grade III Class A hospitals; married participants accounted for 75.4%; most of them held a bachelor degree or above (86.5%); members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) accounted for 22.9%; 50.9% had junior titles; the working years were mainly 5−10 years (42.8%); more than 80.0% participants volunteered to join the front-line fight; 95.1% participants received family support; 43.0% participated in rescue missions; 78.1% participants fought the epidemic in their own hospitals; more than 60% participants considered the workload was greater than before; 34.4% participants fought in the front-line for 2−4 weeks, and 23.5% participants did for more than 6 weeks. There were 111 cases of positive PTSD syndromes (PCL-C total score ≥38) with an overall positive rate of 10.4%, and the scores of reexperience [1.40 (1.00, 1.80)] and hypervigilance [1.40 (1.00, 2.00)] were higher than the score of avoidance [1.14 (1.00, 2.57)]. The results of univariate analysis revealed that PTSD occurred differently among participants grouped by age, political affiliation, working years, anti-epidemic activities location, accumulated working hours in fighting against COVID-19, having child parenting duty, voluntariness, family support, whether family members participated in front-line activities, and rescue mission assignment (P |
