Abstract
ObjectiveInvestigating the mental health status of Chinese resident physicians during the 2019 new coronavirus outbreak.MethodsA cluster sampling method was adopted to collect all China-wide resident physicians during the epidemic period as the research subjects. The Symptom Checklist-90 self-rating scale was used to assess mental health using WeChat electronic questionnaires.ResultsIn total, 511 electronic questionnaires were recovered, all of which were valid. The negative psychological detection rate was 93.9% (480/511). Among the symptoms on the self-rating scale, more than half of the Chinese resident physicians had mild to moderate symptoms of mental unhealthiness, and a few had asymptomatic or severe unhealthy mental states. In particular, the detection rate of abnormality was 88.3% (451/511), obsessive-compulsive symptoms was 90.4% (462/511), the sensitive interpersonal relationship was 90.6% (463/511), depression abnormality was 90.8% (464)/511), anxiety abnormality was 88.3% (451/511), hostility abnormality was 85.3% (436/511), terror abnormality was 84.9% (434/511), paranoia abnormality was 86.9% (444/511), psychotic abnormalities was 89.0% (455/511), and abnormal sleeping and eating status was 90.8% (464/511). The scores of various psychological symptoms of pediatric resident physicians were significantly lower than those of non-pediatrics (p < 0.05).ConclusionThe new coronavirus epidemic has a greater impact on the mental health of Chinese resident physicians.
Highlights
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection broke out in China in November 2019 and quickly developed into a global pandemic (Zhou et al, 2020)
We found that resident physicians in the emergency or ICU departments have more serious psychological problems than resident physicians in pediatric departments, including abnormalities in somatization, depression, and eating and sleeping habits (Table 1)
We found that resident physicians in emergency/ICU departments have more serious psychological problems than resident physicians in pediatric departments
Summary
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection broke out in China in November 2019 and quickly developed into a global pandemic (Zhou et al, 2020). As of July 26, 2020, more than 15 million cases of COVID-19 have been documented worldwide, with nearly 618,000 deaths (Atzrodt et al, 2020; Wu and McGoogan, 2020) This has become a public health emergency of international. The new coronavirus is highly contagious and can be transmitted through multiple channels, such as respiratory droplets, air, and direct contact. It has become a global epidemic in a short period of time (Rothan and Byrareddy, 2020; Wu and McGoogan, 2020). In the early stages of the disease outbreak, people generally lacked awareness of the new coronavirus, and the implementation of prevention and control measures, such as lockdowns, definitely had a huge impact on the quality of life and physical and mental health of the human population (Wu and McGoogan, 2020)
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