Screening for Chinese medical staff mental health by SDS and SAS during the outbreak of COVID-19

Abstract

Jing Liu) J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof others (21 participants), including Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM), Department of Cardiology and General ICU, from 3 to 21, February 2020 (Figure 1). As illustrated, several staff were experiencing clinically signficiant depressive symptoms according to established thresholds [3]. There were no significant differences in scores between staff in COVID-19-associated andother J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof 3 departments ( Figure 1A, t-test, t SDS =0.77, df SDS =95, P SDS =0.44; t-test, t SAS =1.03, df SAS =95, P SAS =0.31). Younger (age≤30) medical staff had higher SDS scores than older staff but this difference was not statistically signficant. (Figure 1 B, t-test, t SDS =1.64, df SDS =83, P SDS =0.11; t-test, t SAS =0.31, df SAS =83, P SAS =0.76). (Table 1) Our results are a reminder not to neglect the mental health of the other medical department staff during the pandemic, including younger medical staff. Intervention including daily living supplies, pre-job training, leisure activities and psychological counseling like the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University advised, were also ongoing in our hospital [4]. Reasonable resting for medical staff may also help relieve stress according to our experience. It's essential for medical staff to keep physical and psychological health during our struggle of COVID-19. SDS and SAS were simple = tools to monitoring the self-mental health [5]. J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof 4 Figure1 Raw scores of various departments or ages. (A) Orange is the medical staffs of COVID-19-associated departments and the blue represents other departments. Dots represents each doctor or nurse raw score. SDS raw scores are on the left of the dashed line and the SAS J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Journal Pre-proof

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