A Study of Basic Needs and Psychological Wellbeing of Medical Workers in the Fever Clinic of a Tertiary General Hospital in Beijing during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychological Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Department of Psychological Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, weijing@pumch.cn.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Jinya Cao et al. Psychother Psychosom. 2020.

. 2020;89(4):252-254.

doi: 10.1159/000507453. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

¹ Department of Psychological Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Department of Psychological Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, weijing@pumch.cn.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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