The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public
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The psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak on medical staff and the general public Biao Chen 1 & Qing-xian Li 1 & Heng Zhang 2 & Jia-yong Zhu 1 & Xu Yang 1 & Yu-hang Wu 3 & Jie Xiong 4 & Fu Li 4 & Hua Wang 1 & Zhi-tao Chen 2 Accepted: 2 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract To assess the psychological effects of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on medical staff and the general public. During the outbreak of COVID-19, an internet-based questionnaire included The Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), and Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) was used to assess the impact of the pandemic situation on the mental health of medical staff and general population in Wuhan and its surrounding areas. Among the 1493 questionnaires completed, 827 (55.39%) of these were men, and 422 (28.27%) of these were medical personnel. The results suggest that the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected individuals significantly, the degree of which is related to age, sex, occupation and mental illness. There was a significant difference in PSS-10 and IES-R scores between the medical staff and the general population. The medical staff showed higher PSS-10 scores (16.813 ± 4.87) and IES-R scores (22.40 ± 12.12) compared to members of the general population PSS-10 (14.80 ± 5.60) and IES-R scores (17.89 ± 13.08). However, there was no statistically significant difference between the SDS scores of medical staff (44.52 ± 12.36) and the general public (43.08 ± 11.42). In terms of the need for psychological assistance, 50.97% of interviewees responded that they needed psychological counseling, of which medical staff accounted for 65.87% and non-medical staff accounted for 45.10%. During the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, great attention should be paid to the mental health of the population, especially medical staff, and measures such as psychological intervention should be actively carried out for reducing the psychosocial effects. Keywords Psychological effects . COVID-19 . Outbreak . Medical staff
Introduction In December of 2019, a new acute respiratory disease, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outbreak was firstly
Biao Chen, Qing-xian Li, Heng Zhang, Jia-yong Zhu and Xu Yang contributed equally to this work. * Hua Wang [email protected] * Zhi-tao Chen [email protected] 1
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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Department of Gastroenterology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430014, China
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Applied Statistics, School of mathematics and statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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The Mental Health Center of Wuhan, Wuhan 430022, China
identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China (Huang et al. 2020). Subsequently, the disease spread rapidly across the globe, posing a great challenge to worldwide health care systems (Bogoch et al. 2020; Holshue et al. 2020; Wu et al. 2020). COVID-19 is a highly infectious d
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