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Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China
BACKGROUND: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, community medical workers, as the primary enforcers of community control measures, undertook many tasks with high exposure risk, resulting in severe psychological pressure, anxiety, depression and other psychological problems. Gend...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449542/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37636825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1198822 |
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author | Xu, Xiaoru Zhang, Jianshu Fang, Ronghua Liu, Hong Zhou, Weihua She, Yi Liu, Feng Hong, Xia Deng, Xuexue |
author_facet | Xu, Xiaoru Zhang, Jianshu Fang, Ronghua Liu, Hong Zhou, Weihua She, Yi Liu, Feng Hong, Xia Deng, Xuexue |
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description | BACKGROUND: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, community medical workers, as the primary enforcers of community control measures, undertook many tasks with high exposure risk, resulting in severe psychological pressure, anxiety, depression and other psychological problems. Gender, type of workers, education, marital status, working years and other demographic factors were affect the mental state of medical workers. Community frontline medical workers gradually returned to normal work and life after the normalized management of COVID-19, but heavy work and high psychological pressure may continue to affect them. Thus, our research team used the same psychological questionnaire to investigate the psychological status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 compared with the COVID-19 period. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of community frontline medical workers in Sichuan, China, from February 6 to 17, 2023. Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) and a self-designed questionnaire of demographic characteristics were provided to the participants point-to-point through a mobile network platform. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze influencing factors related to community frontline medical workers’ psychology. RESULTS: A total of 440 valid questionnaires were statistically analyzed, including 192 (43.64%) from doctors and 248 (56.36%) from nurses. There were 222 (50.45%) participants who were SCL-90 positive. The median total SCL-90 score of medical workers was 105.0 (IQR 95.00–123.75), which was higher than that during the COVID-19 period. The doctor’s median SCL-90 score was 108.5 (IQR 96.00–136.25), and the positive item score was 16.5; the nurse’s median score was 104.0 (IQR 94.00–119.50), and the positive item score was 12.0. Bachelor’s degree education, no fixed contract and working years (10–19 years, 20–29 years, 30–39 years) were independent influencing factors for community frontline medical workers’ psychology. CONCLUSION: After the normalized management of COVID-19, community frontline medical workers still suffered from psychological problems that were even more serious than those during COVID-19. Doctors were more likely to have psychological problems than nurses. In addition, the mental health status of community frontline medical workers was affected by education, type of contract and working years. Managers should pay attention to the mental health of these people. |
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spelling | pubmed-104495422023-08-25 Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China Xu, Xiaoru Zhang, Jianshu Fang, Ronghua Liu, Hong Zhou, Weihua She, Yi Liu, Feng Hong, Xia Deng, Xuexue Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, community medical workers, as the primary enforcers of community control measures, undertook many tasks with high exposure risk, resulting in severe psychological pressure, anxiety, depression and other psychological problems. Gender, type of workers, education, marital status, working years and other demographic factors were affect the mental state of medical workers. Community frontline medical workers gradually returned to normal work and life after the normalized management of COVID-19, but heavy work and high psychological pressure may continue to affect them. Thus, our research team used the same psychological questionnaire to investigate the psychological status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 compared with the COVID-19 period. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of community frontline medical workers in Sichuan, China, from February 6 to 17, 2023. Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) and a self-designed questionnaire of demographic characteristics were provided to the participants point-to-point through a mobile network platform. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze influencing factors related to community frontline medical workers’ psychology. RESULTS: A total of 440 valid questionnaires were statistically analyzed, including 192 (43.64%) from doctors and 248 (56.36%) from nurses. There were 222 (50.45%) participants who were SCL-90 positive. The median total SCL-90 score of medical workers was 105.0 (IQR 95.00–123.75), which was higher than that during the COVID-19 period. The doctor’s median SCL-90 score was 108.5 (IQR 96.00–136.25), and the positive item score was 16.5; the nurse’s median score was 104.0 (IQR 94.00–119.50), and the positive item score was 12.0. Bachelor’s degree education, no fixed contract and working years (10–19 years, 20–29 years, 30–39 years) were independent influencing factors for community frontline medical workers’ psychology. CONCLUSION: After the normalized management of COVID-19, community frontline medical workers still suffered from psychological problems that were even more serious than those during COVID-19. Doctors were more likely to have psychological problems than nurses. In addition, the mental health status of community frontline medical workers was affected by education, type of contract and working years. Managers should pay attention to the mental health of these people. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10449542/ /pubmed/37636825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1198822 Text en Copyright © 2023 Xu, Zhang, Fang, Liu, Zhou, She, Liu, Hong and Deng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Xu, Xiaoru Zhang, Jianshu Fang, Ronghua Liu, Hong Zhou, Weihua She, Yi Liu, Feng Hong, Xia Deng, Xuexue Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title | Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title_full | Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title_short | Evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of COVID-19 in Sichuan, China |
title_sort | evaluation of the mental health status of community frontline medical workers after the normalized management of covid-19 in sichuan, china |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449542/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37636825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1198822 |
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