Psychological stress reactions of occupational exposure to blood-borne infectious pathogens among medical staff: A longitudinal study / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To probe into the status characteristics and the dynamic change trend of the psychological stress among medical staff at four time points after exposed to blood-borne pathogen.Methods:A longitudinal study was carried out among 78 medical personnel in this study,with 67 of hepatitis B virus,5 of hepatitis C virus,4 of HIV and 2 of treponema pallidum respectively.Perceived stress scale (PSS-4),Post-traumatic stress disorder Checklist-5 (PCL-5),Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) were used to assess the psychological status,including perceived stress,post-traumatic stress symptom,anxiety and depression at the four times.Data analysis was performed using repeated measures analysis of variance (RMANOVA) and paired sample t test to explore time effect of the psychological stress reaction in the exposed population.Results:The scores of PSS-4,PCL-5,HADS-A,and HADS-D increased from exposure,and gained highest at one month after exposed,then gradually declined with time (Ps ＜ 0.05).Conclusion:It suggests that the levels of perceived stress,post-traumatic stress symptom,anxiety,depression may be the highest at one month after exposed.