{"id":4596,"date":"2020-02-24T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:14:30","slug":"covid-19-in-wuhan-immediate-psychological-impact-on-5062-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/covid-19-in-wuhan-immediate-psychological-impact-on-5062-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Wuhan: Immediate Psychological Impact on 5062 Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 5000 healthcare workers were surveyed in Wuhan to assess level and severity of psychological issues associated COVID-19 outbreak response. The authors also assessed the effects of psychological protective measures for healthcare workers at a government-identified \u201cspecific hospital\u201d for the treatment of COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Depression, anxiety, and stress varied by sociodemographic characteristics. Nurses and technicians also presented higher rates of psychological stress than doctors, probably because they often have more and closer contact with patients. Workers in isolation units had more stress, as did those who had children and additional family responsibilities. Psychological protective factors were exercise, having sufficient PPE, and reduced rate of nosocomial infection, reasonable shifts, and comfortable accommodations for staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhu et al. (Feb 23, 2020). COVID-19 in Wuhan: Immediate Psychological Impact on 5062 Health Workers. Pre-print downloaded Feb 24 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.20.20025338\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.20.20025338<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 5000 healthcare workers were surveyed in Wuhan to assess level and severity of psychological issues associated COVID-19 outbreak response. The authors also assessed the effects of psychological protective measures for healthcare workers at a government-identified \u201cspecific hospital\u201d for the treatment of COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0 Depression, anxiety, and stress varied by sociodemographic characteristics. Nurses and technicians also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/covid-19-in-wuhan-immediate-psychological-impact-on-5062-health-workers\/\">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-4596","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\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}