Mental Health Status of Healthcare Workers in China for COVID-19 Epidemic

Zijun Liu; Jie Wu; Xiuying Shi; Yuhan Ma; Xiao Ma; Zhaowei Teng; Xu You; Yunqiao Zhang; Wenyu Zhang; Ziqiao Feng; Qing Long; Xiaoyuan Ma; Libo Wang; Yong Zeng

doi:10.5334/aogh.3005

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Table 1

Comparison of participants’ general sociodemographic characteristics.

	Demographics	Pretest	Posttest	Total
Gender	Male	964	310	1274
	Female	4054	1260	5314
Education level	Primary school	2	2	4
	Junior high school	36	7	43
	High school	212	43	255
Undergraduate	4439	1400	5839
Master’s degree	286	117	403
Doctor of Philosophy	43	1	44
Marital status	Unmarried	1197	282	1479
Marital status	Married	3690	1236	4926
Divorced	114	44	158
Widowed	17	8	25
Occupation	Doctor	1642	437	2079
	Nursing staff	2658	801	3459
	Other hospital staff	718	332	1050
Work position	Frontline	2474	585	3059
Non-frontline	2544	985	3529
Birth year	After 1950	12	3	15
	After 1960	441	131	572
	After 1970	934	336	1270
	After 1980	1837	724	2561
	After 1990	1777	375	2152
	After 2000	17	1	18
	Mean ± standard deviation	34.46 ± 9.27	35.68 ± 8.54	34.74 ± 9.07

Table 2

Comparison of the pre- and posttest SCL-90 scores of healthcare workers (x̅ ± s).

Factor	All healthcare workers			Doctors			Nursing staff			Other hospital staff
Factor	Pre	Post	p	Pre	Post	p	Pre	Post	p	Pre	Post	p
GSI	0.29 ± 0.40	0.26 ± 0.39	0.001	0.24 ± 0.36	0.23 ± 0.40	0.479	0.34 ± 0.43	0.28 ± 0.20	0.000	0.25 ± 0.36	0.24 ± 0.33	0.767
PST	17.70 ± 19.39	16.33 ± 20.75	0.016	14.96 ± 18.12	14.21 ± 19.50	0.454	19.93 ± 20.30	17.60 ± 22.06	0.005	15.71 ± 17.46	16.03 ± 18.79	0.785
PSDI	1.36 ± 0.42	1.10 ± 0.60	0.000	1.19 ± 0.57	1.07 ± 0.61	0.000	1.26 ± 0.56	1.11 ± 0.60	0.000	1.19 ± 0.55	1.09 ± 0.57	0.004
T-S	26.39 ± 35.60	23.03 ± 34.82	0.001	21.82 ± 32.37	20.55 ± 35.75	0.479	30.33 ± 38.29	24.93 ± 36.28	0.000	22.30 ± 30.24	21.71 ± 29.40	0.767
SOM	0.22 ± 0.37	0.23 ± 0.40	0.427	0.18 ± 0.33	0.19 ± 0.38	0.599	0.26 ± 0.40	0.27 ± 0.44	0.606	0.18 ± 0.31	0.20 ± 0.34	0.519
O-C	0.45± 0.54	0.40 ± 0.53	0.001	0.36 ± 0.48	0.34 ± 0.53	0.459	0.53 ± 0.57	0.44 ± 0.55	0.000	0.39 ± 0.47	0.39 ± 0.48	0.825
I-S	0.32 ± 0.48	0.27 ± 0.43	0.000	0.27 ± 0.44	0.25 ± 0.44	0.528	0.37 ± 0.52	0.28 ± 0.45	0.000	0.27 ± 0.41	0.26 ± 0.37	0.607
DEP	0.30 ± 0.47	0.26 ± 0.44	0.002	0.26 ± 0.44	0.24 ± 0.47	0.547	0.33 ± 0.49	0.27 ± 0.45	0.001	0.25 ± 0.41	0.24 ± 0.40	0.648
ANX	0.31 ± 0.46	0.22 ± 0.41	0.000	0.26 ± 0.41	0.20 ± 0.42	0.005	0.36 ± 0.50	0.24 ± 0.43	0.000	0.26 ± 0.40	0.21 ± 0.34	0.035
HOS	0.27 ± 0.45	0.24 ± 0.43	0.008	0.22 ± 0.41	0.20 ± 0.44	0.369	0.32 ± 0.49	0.27 ± 0.46	0.010	0.22 ± 0.37	0.21 ± 0.34	0.873
PHOB	0.31 ± 0.47	0.25 ± 0.42	0.000	0.26 ± 0.43	0.26 ± 0.43	0.289	0.35 ± 0.50	0.26 ± 0.44	0.000	0.27 ± 0.42	0.25 ± 0.37	0.503
PAR	0.22 ± 0.39	0.19 ± 0.36	0.006	0.18 ± 0.36	0.18 ± 0.39	0.870	0.25 ± 0.43	0.19 ± 0.37	0.001	0.18 ± 0.33	0.18 ± 0.32	0.782
PSY	0.19 ± 0.37	0.16 ± 0.35	0.001	0.15 ± 0.34	0.15 ± 0.38	0.684	0.22 ± 0.40	0.17 ± 0.35	0.000	0.17 ± 0.32	0.15 ± 0.30	0.587

**(A)** Comparison of all healthcare workers pretest and post-test SCL-90 scores. **(B)** Impact of the epidemic on life. **(C)** Pretest and post-test scores for the degree of worry about the epidemic. **(D)** Scores for the evaluation of the psychological intervention system and the degree of satisfaction with government.

Table 3

Multivariate logistic regression analysis of different factors on the total score.

Factor	B	SE	Wald X²	p	OR	95% CI
Gender	–0.23	0.11	4.12	0.04	0.80	0.637–0.992
Age	–0.01	0.01	6.01	0.01	0.99	0.980–0.998
Marital status	0.09	0.09	1.08	0.30	1.10	0.922–1.302
Education level	0.03	0.11	0.07	0.79	1.03	0.831–1.274
Occupation	–0.12	0.07	3.13	0.08	0.89	0.780–1.013
Work position	–0.53	0.08	39.14	0.00	0.59	0.502–0.697
Constant	–1.04	0.55	3.64	0.06	0.35

Table 4

Posttest outbreak worry score.

Factor	Pretest	Posttest	p	95% CI (lower-higher)	r
Mean	50.78 ± 28.18	45.00 ± 28.49	0.000	4.181–7.384	0.305**

Mental Health Status of Healthcare Workers in China for COVID-19 Epidemic

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