A psychological behavioral survey among medical students during the outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019

ABSTRACT

Objective: To evaluate the psychological status of medical students after the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COV1D - 19) in order to provide necessary psychological assistance. Methods The respondents were medical students from Zhongshan School of Medicine and Affiliated Hospitals of Sun Yat - scn University. A survey platform Wenjuanxing was used to design the questionnaire. The responding time ranged from Feb 1st 2020 to Feb 8th 2020. SPSS 25.0 and performed the binary Logistic multivariate regression analysis were used to investigate how demographic characteristics and other factors influence medical students' psychological status. Results The number of respondents was 1 244, and the valid samples were 1 209.55.1% of medical students checked the epidemic report one to three times per day. Most medical students did not suffer from depression or anxiety. only 0.7%-12.4% had symptoms for "more than half of the time", and 0.2%-5.4% had symptoms "nearly every day". Among students with symptoms, 24.5% relieved within one week, 4.8% within two weeks and 0.8% within three weeks, while only 6.3% had persistent symptoms. Suspending classes had no perceivable influence on psychological status in 37.6% of respondents and had only a little influence on 35.3% of them. The percentage of affected nudes was 32.6%, and that for females was 44.9% (f1/40.05). Undergraduate students had the least proportion (37.4%) of being psychologically influenced, while master students had the most proportion (411.7%), the difference was statistically significant (1/40.05). 56.5% of students with mild anxiety or depression tendency had psychological influence, while the percentage of students with moderate, moderate-severe, severe were 80.0%, 73.7%, and 85.7%, respectively. the difference was statistically significant (11/40.05). During the epidemic period, the active learners were less often affected than the students who did not study, the percentage being 38.0% and 44.5%, respectively, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05"). Conclusion After the outbreak of COVID-19, the psychological status of medical students is normal, but the psychological behavior of a few medical students has undergone negative changes. High-risk groups need special psychological intervention. Counselors and class teachers should strengthen the contact with this class of students to avoid negative emotions from adversely affecting the psychological behavior of medical students.