Analysis of mental health status and influencing factors of medical staff during static management of the COVID-19 epidemic: a cross-sectional study (preprint)

ABSTRACT

Objective To assess the mental health of medical staff as the COVID-19 pandemic is being managed statically.Methods By a convenience sampling method, 560 medical personnel who worked in a certain region of China throughout the static management period were chosen as the research objects. To obtain information, the basic data questionnaire, the COVID-19 epidemic perception questionnaire, the psychological questionnaire for public health emergencies, the psychological resilience scale, and the social support scale were all implemented.Results The psychological questionnaire for public health emergencies of medical staff had a total score of 2.03 (0.87, 2.77), with scores for each dimension of depression, neurasthenia, fear, anxiety, and hypochondriasis being 0.56 (0,0.833), 0.425 (0.2,0.6), 0.57 (0.17,0.83), and 0.207 (0,0.4), respectively. Multivariate linear regression analysis demonstrated that monthly salary, whether there was physical disease in the past, apartment, whether to work in the isolation area, attitude toward static management, psychological resilience score, social support score, and emotional knowledge score entered the influencing factor model of mental health of medical personnel (F = 4.759, P < 0.001), which could independently explain 33.8% of the total variation.Conclusion With static administration, the level of psychological stress experienced by medical workers during public health emergencies is excessive. To safeguard the physical and emotional health of medical workers, managers should improve the management of public health emergencies, establish a scientific and coordinated training program, and provide psychological assistance in a timely manner.