Yan Liu1,2, Youlin Long3, Yifan Cheng3, Qiong Guo3, Liu Yang3, Yifei Lin4, Yu Cao2,5, Lei Ye1,2, Yan Jiang6, Ka Li7,8, Kun Tian9, Xiaoming A10, Cheng Sun11, Fang Zhang12, Xiaoxia Song13, Ga Liao14, Jin Huang8, Liang Du3,15. 1. Emergency Department of West China Hospital, Sichuan University/West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 2. Institute of Disaster Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 3. West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 4. Department of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 5. Department of Emergency, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 6. Nursing Department, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 7. West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 8. West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 9. Neuro-Intensive Care Unit, Affiliated Hospital of Chifeng University, Chifeng, China. 10. Emergency Intensive Care Unit, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province/The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China. 11. Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou First People's Hospital, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. 12. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Union Hospital Affiliated With Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. 13. Department of Emergency, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China. 14. State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 15. West China Medical Publishers, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health issue and challenge to health professionals. In similar epidemics, nurses experienced more distress than other providers. Methods: We surveyed both on-duty nurses caring for infected patients and second-line nurses caring for uninfected patients from Hubei and other provinces throughout China. Results: We received completed surveys from 1,364 nurses from 22 provinces: 658 front-line and 706 second-line nurses. The median (IQR) GHQ-28 score of all nurses was 17 (IQR 11-24). The overall incidence of mild-to-moderate distress (GHQ score > 5) was 28%; that for severe distress (GHQ score > 11) was 6%. The incidence of mild-to-moderate distress in the second-line nurses was higher than that in the front-line nurses (31 vs. 25%; OR, 0.74; 95 CI, 0.58-0.94). Living alone (OR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.44-0.86) and feeling supported (OR, 0.82, 95% CI, 0.74-0.90) independently predicted lower anxiety. Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological problems of all nurses were generally serious. The interviewed second-line nurses face more serious issues than the front-line nurses.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health issue and challenge to health professionals. In similar epidemics, nurses experienced more distress than other providers. Methods: We surveyed both on-duty nurses caring for infectedpatients and second-line nurses caring for uninfected patients from Hubei and other provinces throughout China. Results: We received completed surveys from 1,364 nurses from 22 provinces: 658 front-line and 706 second-line nurses. The median (IQR) GHQ-28 score of all nurses was 17 (IQR 11-24). The overall incidence of mild-to-moderate distress (GHQ score > 5) was 28%; that for severe distress (GHQ score > 11) was 6%. The incidence of mild-to-moderate distress in the second-line nurses was higher than that in the front-line nurses (31 vs. 25%; OR, 0.74; 95 CI, 0.58-0.94). Living alone (OR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.44-0.86) and feeling supported (OR, 0.82, 95% CI, 0.74-0.90) independently predicted lower anxiety. Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological problems of all nurses were generally serious. The interviewed second-line nurses face more serious issues than the front-line nurses.
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