ABSTRACT
@# Objective This research aimed to explore the mental status of public hospital medical personnel and social support for them, social support they perceive, and their coping styles. This study was designed to investigate on the relationship between their anxiety and social support, perceived social support and their coping styles. Methods A questionnaire was adopted to collect data, including participants’ background, measurement of anxiety, as well as social support, perceived social support and their coping styles. Results(1)The anxiety level of medical personnel was significantly higher than that of domestic norm 37.23±12.59(t=14.370, P<0.001);(2)Anxiety levels appeared to be significantly different in occupation, educational background and working years;(3)Results shown in the three scales were different among participants with different levels of anxiety in perspectives of every dimension in the scales； (4) With the help of Spearman correlation analysis, it showed that anxiety levels of medical personnel was negatively correlated with objective support (r=-0.098, P=0.051), subjective support (r=-0.189, P<0.001) ,utilization of social support (r=-0.164, P=0.001), friend support (r=-0.356, P<0.001),family support (r=-0.330, P<0.001),other support (r=-0.238, P<0.001) and positive response (r=-0.282, P<0.001), and positively correlated with negative response (r=0.385, P<0.001). Conclusions Mental health of medical personnel should be noticed and enhanced, and social support for public hospital medical personnel should be strengthened. Thus, the performance of the medical team can be developed in order to support further public medical service construction.