Zhenyu Li1, Jingwu Ge1, Jianping Feng1, Riyue Jiang2, Qin Zhou2, Xiaolin Xu3, Yinbing Pan1, Shijiang Liu1, Bo Gui1, Zhongyun Wang1, Bin Zhu4, Yimin Hu5, Jianjun Yang6, Rong Wang7, Dongan Su8, Kenji Hashimoto9, Meiling Yang1, Chun Yang1, Cunming Liu1. 1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China. 2. Department of Ultrasound Imaging, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. 3. Department of Anesthesiology, Tongji Medical College, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China. 4. Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China. 5. Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Changzhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China. 6. Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. 7. Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China. 8. Department of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, 904th Hospital of The Joint Logistics Support Force, People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, China. 9. Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba, Japan.
Abstract
Context: Since December 2019, more than 80,000 patients have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. Social support status of COVID-19 patients, especially the impact of social support on their psychological status and quality of life, needs to be addressed with increasing concern. Objectives: In this study, we used social support rating scale (SSRS) to investigate the social support in COVID-19 patients and nurses. Methods: The present study included 186 COVID-19 patients at a Wuhan mobile cabin hospital and 234 nurses at a Wuhan COVID-19 control center. Responses to a mobile phone app-based questionnaire about social support, anxiety, depression, and quality of life were recorded and evaluated. Results: COVID-19 patients scored significantly lower than nurses did on the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). Among these patients, 33.9% had anxiety symptoms, while 23.7% had depression symptoms. Overall SSRS, subjective social support scores and objective support scores of patients with anxiety were lower than those of patients without anxiety. This result was also found in depression. In addition, all dimensions of social support were positively correlated with quality of life. Interestingly, in all dimensions of social support, subjective support was found to be an independent predictive factor for anxiety, depression, and quality of life, whereas objective support was a predictive factor for quality of life, but not for anxiety and depression via regression analysis. Conclusion: Medical staffs should pay attention to the subjective feelings of patients and make COVID-19 patients feel respected, supported, and understood from the perspective of subjective support, which may greatly benefit patients, alleviate their anxiety and depression, and improve their quality of life.
Context: Since December 2019, more than 80,000 patients have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. Social support status of COVID-19patients, especially the impact of social support on their psychological status and quality of life, needs to be addressed with increasing concern. Objectives: In this study, we used social support rating scale (SSRS) to investigate the social support in COVID-19patients and nurses. Methods: The present study included 186 COVID-19patients at a Wuhan mobile cabin hospital and 234 nurses at a Wuhan COVID-19 control center. Responses to a mobile phone app-based questionnaire about social support, anxiety, depression, and quality of life were recorded and evaluated. Results:COVID-19patients scored significantly lower than nurses did on the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). Among these patients, 33.9% had anxiety symptoms, while 23.7% had depression symptoms. Overall SSRS, subjective social support scores and objective support scores of patients with anxiety were lower than those of patients without anxiety. This result was also found in depression. In addition, all dimensions of social support were positively correlated with quality of life. Interestingly, in all dimensions of social support, subjective support was found to be an independent predictive factor for anxiety, depression, and quality of life, whereas objective support was a predictive factor for quality of life, but not for anxiety and depression via regression analysis. Conclusion: Medical staffs should pay attention to the subjective feelings of patients and make COVID-19patients feel respected, supported, and understood from the perspective of subjective support, which may greatly benefit patients, alleviate their anxiety and depression, and improve their quality of life.
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