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Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan
Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been raising global anxiety and fear to the real or perceived health threat from the virus. This study aimed to investigate the psychological impacts and depression in the front-line non-medical workers in Wuhan, the first and the w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32871675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.078 |
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author | Fang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaying Teng, Chao Zhao, Ke Su, Kuan-Pin Wang, Zhen Tang, Wei Zhang, Chen |
author_facet | Fang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaying Teng, Chao Zhao, Ke Su, Kuan-Pin Wang, Zhen Tang, Wei Zhang, Chen |
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description | Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been raising global anxiety and fear to the real or perceived health threat from the virus. This study aimed to investigate the psychological impacts and depression in the front-line non-medical workers in Wuhan, the first and the worst hit place by COVID-19. Methods: A total of 191 front-line non-medical workers in Wuhan were recruited by online survey. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Stress Reaction Questionnaire (SRQ) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ) were used. Results: The results showed that 50.3% (96) participants reported the clinically significant symptoms of depression. Among them, 33.0% (63) participants were with mild depression, 10.5% (20) participants with moderate depression, 5.8% (11) with moderately severe depression, and 1.0% (2) with severe depression. Participants with depression tend to be post-90 s (the generation born after 1990s), females, with increased levels of stress reactions, increased negative affects, but lower positive affects compared to these without depression. The stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed that post-90 s (β = 0.908, P = 0.016), the emotional reaction (β = 0.122, P = 0.005) and physical reaction (β = 0.124, P = 0.020) in SQR were significant independent responsible for the development of depression. Conclusion: The findings of the present study suggest the targeted psychological intervention measures should be developed to improve the mental health of non-medical workers on the front-line of COVID-19 epidemic, especially the females and younger individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-73650802020-07-17 Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan Fang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaying Teng, Chao Zhao, Ke Su, Kuan-Pin Wang, Zhen Tang, Wei Zhang, Chen J Affect Disord Article Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been raising global anxiety and fear to the real or perceived health threat from the virus. This study aimed to investigate the psychological impacts and depression in the front-line non-medical workers in Wuhan, the first and the worst hit place by COVID-19. Methods: A total of 191 front-line non-medical workers in Wuhan were recruited by online survey. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Stress Reaction Questionnaire (SRQ) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ) were used. Results: The results showed that 50.3% (96) participants reported the clinically significant symptoms of depression. Among them, 33.0% (63) participants were with mild depression, 10.5% (20) participants with moderate depression, 5.8% (11) with moderately severe depression, and 1.0% (2) with severe depression. Participants with depression tend to be post-90 s (the generation born after 1990s), females, with increased levels of stress reactions, increased negative affects, but lower positive affects compared to these without depression. The stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed that post-90 s (β = 0.908, P = 0.016), the emotional reaction (β = 0.122, P = 0.005) and physical reaction (β = 0.124, P = 0.020) in SQR were significant independent responsible for the development of depression. Conclusion: The findings of the present study suggest the targeted psychological intervention measures should be developed to improve the mental health of non-medical workers on the front-line of COVID-19 epidemic, especially the females and younger individuals. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-11-01 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7365080/ /pubmed/32871675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.078 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Fang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaying Teng, Chao Zhao, Ke Su, Kuan-Pin Wang, Zhen Tang, Wei Zhang, Chen Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title | Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title_full | Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title_fullStr | Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title_full_unstemmed | Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title_short | Depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan |
title_sort | depressive symptoms in the front-line non-medical workers during the covid-19 outbreak in wuhan |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32871675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.078 |
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