Journal
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
Volume 282, Issue -, Pages 836-839Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.060
Keywords
COVID-19; Medical staff; Mental health
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFC2003000]
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This study examined the mental health status of frontline and non-frontline medical workers in China, finding that the negative factor scores of non-frontline medical staff were generally worse than those of frontline staff, while positive factor scores were the opposite. Some psychological effects and theories were used to explain this phenomenon, and intervention suggestions for medical staff and future research directions were discussed.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has become a global public health event. Medical staff around the world are nervously responding to the crisis, and their mental health problems deserve attention. To better know the differences in the mental health status between frontier-line and non-frontier-line medical staff. This study used the Child PTSD Symptom Scale, the Self-Rating Depression Scale, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale to examine the PTSD, depression, anxiety and resilience among 162 frontier-line medical workers and 163 non-frontier-line medical workers in China. The results showed that all negative factor scores of non-frontier-line medical staff seemed to be worse than those of frontier-line medical staff, and the positive factor scores were the opposite through descriptive analysis, independent sample t-test and Chi-square test. Some psychological effects and theories were used to explain this phenomenon. Intervention suggestions for medical staff and future research directions were discussed.
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