Wenjin Chen1, Wei He2, Liangnan Zeng3, Xiaopeng Li4, Ruichen Gong5, Tangming Peng3, Xiaomeng Wang6, Reng Ren7, Di Zhao8. 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 3. Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. 4. Department of Intensive Care Unit, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China. 5. Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Kaohsiung Medical University, Gaoxiong, Taiwan Province, China. 6. Emergency Intensive Care Unit, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. 7. Neurocritical Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. 8. Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. Electronic address: 179381749@qq.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Physicians working in intensive care unit (ICU) are prone to suffer from mental health problems, but there are still very limited data of mental health status of ICU physicians in China. Therefore, this study was to investigate their psychological status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ICU physicians were contacted electronically and asked to complete the Symptom Check-list 90 (SCL-90) for Chinese from December 13 to December 14 in 2018. A total of 1749 valid questionnaires were collected. Fifteen potential relevant factors that could affect the mental health status of ICU physicians were also analyzed by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS: The total mean score of SCL-90 for surveyed subjects was 175.49 ± 65.79. Near half of the respondents were identified with psychological symptoms. The pooled estimates of all the nine factors, including somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal-sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, and paranoid ideation among ICU physicians, were significantly higher than those in the general population (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that education, title, working hours per week, frequency of night shift were risk factors for psychological symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The situation of psychological health of ICU physicians in China is worrying, and it is urgent to take some effective measures to improve their mental health.
PURPOSE: Physicians working in intensive care unit (ICU) are prone to suffer from mental health problems, but there are still very limited data of mental health status of ICU physicians in China. Therefore, this study was to investigate their psychological status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ICU physicians were contacted electronically and asked to complete the Symptom Check-list 90 (SCL-90) for Chinese from December 13 to December 14 in 2018. A total of 1749 valid questionnaires were collected. Fifteen potential relevant factors that could affect the mental health status of ICU physicians were also analyzed by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS: The total mean score of SCL-90 for surveyed subjects was 175.49 ± 65.79. Near half of the respondents were identified with psychological symptoms. The pooled estimates of all the nine factors, including somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal-sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, and paranoid ideation among ICU physicians, were significantly higher than those in the general population (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that education, title, working hours per week, frequency of night shift were risk factors for psychological symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The situation of psychological health of ICU physicians in China is worrying, and it is urgent to take some effective measures to improve their mental health.