Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the anxiety levels of healthcare workers and to provide guidance on potential accurate social and psychological interventions for healthcare workers during the epidemic of COVID-19 in Zhejiang Province, China. Healthcare workers from five hospitals in Zhejiang Province were randomly selected into this study. Zung Self-Assessment Scale for Anxiety (SAS) was used to evaluate the anxiety status of the included 1637 healthcare workers. The total anxiety score of healthcare workers in Zhejiang Province was 30.85 ± 6.89. The univariate analysis showed that the anxiety level of healthcare workers was related to gender, education, occupation, physical condition, job risk coefficient, and with family members on the first-line combating COVID-19 (P <0.05). The multivariate analysis showed that physical condition and job risk coefficient were predictors of anxiety levels of healthcare workers. During the epidemic of COVID-19, 1637 healthcare workers generally had an increased tendency to have anxiety. Individualized assessment of the anxiety level of healthcare workers should be provided, and different interventions should be given based on the evaluation results.
Highlights
When people are confronted with events that are dangerous and life threatening, or situations that need great efforts, they will feel nervous and unpleasant
The univariate analysis showed that the anxiety level of healthcare workers was related to gender, education, occupation, physical condition, job risk coefficient, and with family members on the first-line combating COVID-19 (P
The multivariate analysis showed that physical condition and job risk coefficient were predictors of anxiety levels of healthcare workers
Summary
When people are confronted with events that are dangerous and life threatening, or situations that need great efforts, they will feel nervous and unpleasant The epidemic of COVID-19 has a huge psychological impact on general population [2], workers [3], psychiatric patients [4] and rural population [5] Under this background, healthcare workers, especially the first line healthcare workers, are faced with unimaginable challenges [6]. Healthcare workers, especially the first line healthcare workers, are faced with unimaginable challenges [6] They need to overcome the fear of infection at any time during the work. The purpose of this study was to investigate the anxiety levels of 1 637 healthcare workers during the epidemic of COVID-19 in Zhejiang Province, China
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