Prevalence and influencing factors of anxiety and depression symptoms among the first-line medical staff in Wuhan mobile cabin hospital during the COVID-19 epidemic

Abstract

To investigate the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms and the associated risk factors among first-line medical staff in Wuhan during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic.From March 5 to 15, 2020, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Hamilton Depression scale were used to investigate the anxiety and depression status of medical staff in Wuhan Cabin Hospital (a Hospital). Two hundred seventy-six questionnaires were received from 96 doctors and 180 nurses, including 79 males and 197 females.During the COVID-19 epidemic, the prevalence rate of anxiety and depression was 27.9% and 18.1%, respectively, among 276 front-line medical staff in Wuhan. The prevalence rate of anxiety and depression among doctors was 19.8% and 11.5%, respectively, and the prevalence rate of anxiety and depression among nurses was 32.2% and 21.7%, respectively. Females recorded higher total scores for anxiety and depression than males, and nurses recorded higher scores for anxiety and depression than doctors.During the COVID-19 epidemic, some first-line medical staff experienced mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Nurses were more prone to anxiety and depression than doctors. Effective strategies toward to improving the mental health should be provided to first-line medical staff, especially female medical staff and nurses.

Predictors of COVID-19-related health anxiety among health care workers: a cross-sectional study

“…The results showed that the mean score of health anxiety of these employees was higher than the cutoff point of health anxiety, which indicates that participants have a high level of health anxiety. Consistent with this finding, in other studies, the health anxiety of HCWs during the COVID-19 epidemic, was higher than the cutoff point and HCWs had high level of health anxiety [21,30,31]. One of the reasons for the high level of health anxiety in HCWs was that this study was conducted in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran.…”

“…In some studies, factors such as working on the frontline [ 31 , 35 ], and having an underlying disease [ 19 , 21 ] have been reported as predictors of health anxiety in health workers. But in other studies, such results were not obtained [ 30 , 31 ].…”

“…Studies have reported various results on the relationship between demographic variables and health anxiety in HCWs. For example, in some studies, age and educational level have been determined as predictors of health anxiety [ 29 , 30 ], while in other studies, a significant relationship between these factors and health anxiety has not been reported [ 20 , 21 , 31 ]. In most studies, the level of health anxiety was higher in women [ 19 , 32 , 33 ].…”

“…In some studies, no significant relationship was found between gender and health anxiety [ 21 , 31 ]. In most studies, health anxiety was higher in nurses [ 20 , 22 , 30 , 34 ], but in some studies, this finding was not obtained [ 19 , 32 ]. In some studies, factors such as working on the frontline [ 31 , 35 ], and having an underlying disease [ 19 , 21 ] have been reported as predictors of health anxiety in health workers.…”

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