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To determine whether medical healthcare workers experienced more severe psychosocial and mental health issues compared to nonmedical health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak.

January 1, 2020Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsOpen Access

Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems of Medical Health Workers during the COVID-19 Epidemic in China

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To determine whether medical healthcare workers experienced more severe psychosocial and mental health issues compared to nonmedical health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Online survey administered from February 19 to March 6, 2020, among 2,182 Chinese participants (927 medical health workers and 1,255 nonmedical health workers).
Evaluated psychological outcomes using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Symptom Check List-revised (SCL-90-R), and Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), which incorporates 2-item anxiety and depression scales.
Medical health workers exhibited significantly higher prevalence rates compared to nonmedical workers for insomnia (38.4% vs. 30.5%, p < 0.01), anxiety (13.0% vs. 8.5%, p < 0.01), depression (12.2% vs. 9.5%, p < 0.04), somatization (1.6% vs. 0.4%, p < 0.01), and obsessive-compulsive symptoms (5.3% vs. 2.2%, p < 0.01).
Total scores on the ISI, GAD-2, PHQ-2, and SCL-90-R obsessive-compulsive subscales were significantly higher in medical workers (p ≤ 0.01).
Preexisting organic disease was an independent risk factor across all evaluated symptoms in medical workers (p < 0.05 or 0.01), alongside female sex, rural residence, and risk of direct contact with COVID-19 patients.

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Cross-sectional survey reveals higher rates of insomnia and depression in medical staff, highlighting need for targeted recovery programs.

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Zhang et al. (2020) studied this question.

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Cross-sectional survey reveals higher rates of insomnia and depression in medical staff, highlighting need for targeted recovery programs.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems of Medical Health Workers during the COVID-19 Epidemic in China

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