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. 2021 Nov:65:102524.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102524. Epub 2021 Aug 21.

Research on psychological stress and mental health of medical staff in COVID-19 prevention and control

Yinggui Qiu  1 , Qian Wu  1 , Rui Chen  1 , Cuiling Guan  1
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Research on psychological stress and mental health of medical staff in COVID-19 prevention and control

Yinggui Qiu et al. Int J Disaster Risk Reduct. 2021 Nov.

Abstract

Background: The characteristics of COVID-19, such as the long incubation period, the fast transmission speed, the high demand for treatment, and the lack of prior treatment experience, have brought tremendous psychological stress to the medical staff involved in the epidemic prevention and control, seriously affecting the mental health of medical staff. Therefore, this paper conducts a discussion on the psychological stress and mental health of medical staff.

Methods: (1)Interview 28 medical staff fighting against COVID-19 from Wuhan Central Hospital and Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese medicine. They have worked as doctors in mental health departments, surgery departments and emergency departments, nurses and management staffs; (2)Based on interviews and literature, the questionnaire survey is conducted among 528 medical personnel from all over the country who have participated in the fight against COVID-19 in Wuhan; (3)Use the structural equation modeling to explore the influence mechanism of medical staff's psychological stress and mental health in the prevention and control of COVID-19. Results: The epidemic severity in hospital and the work intensity are the important psychological stressors for the front-line medical staff. Self-risk perception has a mediating effect on the severity of epidemic in hospitals and mental health of medical staff. Social identification has no moderating effect between the self-risk perception and the mental health.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Psychological health; Self-risk perception; Social identification.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Essential information of medical rescue team about OPFOC.
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Conceptual model.
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Structural equation modeling.
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