{"id":4266,"date":"2020-02-13T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:24:20","slug":"the-mental-health-of-medical-workers-in-wuhan-china-dealing-with-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/13\/the-mental-health-of-medical-workers-in-wuhan-china-dealing-with-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The mental health of medical workers in Wuhan, China dealing with the 2019 novel coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healthcare workers in Wuhan have been facing enormous pressure including a high rate of infection, inadequate protection from contamination, overwork and exhaustion, social isolation, lack of contact with their families, and negative interactions with their patients.\u00a0 These issues are creating mental health issues of stress, depression, fear, denial and anger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The government of Wuhan has implemented a number of steps to address the issues pertaining to healthcare workers.\u00a0 These include identifying infected individuals as having work related injuries.\u00a0 Additionally, the officials have sent healthcare workers from other provinces to help, rotating shifts in terms of high and lower pressure roles, increasing access to information on how to mitigate risk of transmission.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four psychological intervention teams have been set up.\u00a0 These teams have a variety of roles.\u00a0 One team coordinates management and press.\u00a0 Senior psychological experts formulate psychological intervention materials and rules and provide technical guidance and supervision.\u00a0 Medical teams participate in psychological interventions for healthcare workers and patients.\u00a0 Finally, psychological hotline teams composed of volunteers who had received training in dealing with COVID-2019 provide telephone guidance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results from these initial mental health interventions are reported to be positive and may inform future planning for crisis intervention.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kang et al. (Feb 5, 2020). The mental health of medical workers in Wuhan, China dealing with the 2019 novel coronavirus. The Lancet.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30047-X\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30047-X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare workers in Wuhan have been facing enormous pressure including a high rate of infection, inadequate protection from contamination, overwork and exhaustion, social isolation, lack of contact with their families, and negative interactions with their patients.\u00a0 These issues are creating mental health issues of stress, depression, fear, denial and anger.\u00a0\u00a0 The government of Wuhan has&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/13\/the-mental-health-of-medical-workers-in-wuhan-china-dealing-with-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}