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Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the level of worry and its influencing factors during the COVID-19 epidemic among teachers in Henan Province in China. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted. METHODS: We designed a cross-sectional survey that included 88 611 teachers from three cities in Henan Pr...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yanqing, Li, Quanman, Tarimo, Clifford Silver, Wu, Cuiping, Miao, Yudong, Wu, Jian
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34233970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045386
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author Wang, Yanqing
Li, Quanman
Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Wu, Cuiping
Miao, Yudong
Wu, Jian
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Li, Quanman
Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Wu, Cuiping
Miao, Yudong
Wu, Jian
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description OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the level of worry and its influencing factors during the COVID-19 epidemic among teachers in Henan Province in China. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted. METHODS: We designed a cross-sectional survey that included 88 611 teachers from three cities in Henan Province, China between 4 February 2020 and 12 February 2020. Level of worry was measured using a five-item Likert scale, with 1 being ‘not worried’ and 5 being ‘very worried’. The OR and 95% CI of potential influencing factors for level of worry among study participants were estimated using ordinal logistic regression models. RESULTS: About 59% of teachers reported being ‘very worried’ about the COVID-19 epidemic. The proportion of female teachers was higher than of male teachers (60.33% vs 52.89%). In all age groups considered in this study, a ‘very worried’ condition accounted for the highest proportion. The age group 40–49 years had the lowest proportion of participants who were very worried, 52.34% of whom were men and 58.62% were women. After controlling for potential confounding factors, age, education level, type of teacher, school location, attention level, fear level, anxiety level and behaviour status were all related to level of worry (all p<0.05). CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 epidemic, there was a high proportion of teachers who were ‘very worried’ about the situation in Henan Province, China. Our study may remind policymakers to consider factors including age, educational status, type of teacher, school location, source of information on COVID-19, attention level, anxiety level, fear level and behaviour status to alleviate worry.
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spelling pubmed-82664292021-07-09 Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey Wang, Yanqing Li, Quanman Tarimo, Clifford Silver Wu, Cuiping Miao, Yudong Wu, Jian BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the level of worry and its influencing factors during the COVID-19 epidemic among teachers in Henan Province in China. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted. METHODS: We designed a cross-sectional survey that included 88 611 teachers from three cities in Henan Province, China between 4 February 2020 and 12 February 2020. Level of worry was measured using a five-item Likert scale, with 1 being ‘not worried’ and 5 being ‘very worried’. The OR and 95% CI of potential influencing factors for level of worry among study participants were estimated using ordinal logistic regression models. RESULTS: About 59% of teachers reported being ‘very worried’ about the COVID-19 epidemic. The proportion of female teachers was higher than of male teachers (60.33% vs 52.89%). In all age groups considered in this study, a ‘very worried’ condition accounted for the highest proportion. The age group 40–49 years had the lowest proportion of participants who were very worried, 52.34% of whom were men and 58.62% were women. After controlling for potential confounding factors, age, education level, type of teacher, school location, attention level, fear level, anxiety level and behaviour status were all related to level of worry (all p<0.05). CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 epidemic, there was a high proportion of teachers who were ‘very worried’ about the situation in Henan Province, China. Our study may remind policymakers to consider factors including age, educational status, type of teacher, school location, source of information on COVID-19, attention level, anxiety level, fear level and behaviour status to alleviate worry. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8266429/ /pubmed/34233970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045386 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Public Health
Wang, Yanqing
Li, Quanman
Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Wu, Cuiping
Miao, Yudong
Wu, Jian
Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title_full Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title_fullStr Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title_short Prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Henan, China: a cross-sectional survey
title_sort prevalence and risk factors of worry among teachers during the covid-19 epidemic in henan, china: a cross-sectional survey
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34233970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045386
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