Analysis of psychological stress of community healthcare staff in Shanghai during public health emergencies / 中华医院管理杂志

Objective:To investigate the psychological stress and related factors of community medical staff in Shanghai during infectious public health emergencies.Methods:Random cluster sampling, questionnaires combining general demographic information, self-rating anxiety scale(SAS), self-rating depression scale(SDS)and yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale(YB)were administrated to investigate the psychological stress of medical staff from 20 community healthcare centers in 10 Shanghai districts.Results:A total of 696 valid questionnaires were collected. 17.36% of the staff had SAS scores exceeding the boundary value. Nurses, staff with per capita monthly family income<5 000 yuan, or with below-average family relations presented higher SAS scores. 28.19% of the staff had SDS scores exceeding the boundary value. Staff with 5-10 years seniority, nurses, with per capita monthly family income<5 000 yuan, and with poor family relations presented higher SDS scores. 6.68% of the staff had YB score≥16. Nurses presented a higher YB score.Conclusions:Some community healthcare center staff experienced psychological stress during public health emergencies.Factors associated with psychological stress, such as 5-10 years′ seniority, nurses, per capita monthly family income<5 000 yuan, below-average or poor family relations, deserve more attention in order to prevent from or alleviate harmful psychological stress.

A review of effects of disrupted primary caregiver infant relationship on brain development and psychopathology / 中国心理卫生杂志

The disrupted caregiver infant relationships are not unpopular (infant abuse and non-traumatic caregiver-infant relationship).Animal and human studies have demonstrated this disruptive relationship exerts the fundamental and enduring impacts on stress system, limbic system and relevant cortex.Individual carrying such biological susceptibility might develop psychopathology under stresses at later life.The assessment needs to get involved the measures with more objectivity,real time and moment-to-moment components.The study on caregiverinfant relationship also should focus on the historical and cultural aspects of China.