{"id":4923,"date":"2020-03-06T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:36:36","slug":"psychological-impact-of-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-on-healthcare-workers-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/06\/psychological-impact-of-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-on-healthcare-workers-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on healthcare workers in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several studies in recent weeks have touched on the psychological effects of the current outbreak on healthcare workers (HCWs), especially in China. Two new questionnaire-based studies have evaluated psychological distress in HCWs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dai et al found that the top concerns among HCWs were infection of colleagues and family members, protective measures, and medical violence. 39.1% reported psychological distress, with more distress reported by those working in Wuhan, serving as frontline medical providers, and those who had experienced isolation themselves or had friends or colleagues infected.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xing et al compared HCW reports of psychological symptoms to national averages and found significantly more among HCWs. However, interpersonal sensitivity was quite high, indicating good cohesion and unity among clinical providers during emergencies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dai et al. (Mar 6, 2020). Psychological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on healthcare workers in China. Pre-print downloaded Mar 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.03.20030874\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.03.20030874<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xing et al. (Mar 6, 2020). Study of the mental health status of medical personnel dealing with new coronavirus pneumonia. Pre-print downloaded Mar 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.04.20030973\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.04.20030973<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several studies in recent weeks have touched on the psychological effects of the current outbreak on healthcare workers (HCWs), especially in China. Two new questionnaire-based studies have evaluated psychological distress in HCWs.\u00a0 Dai et al found that the top concerns among HCWs were infection of colleagues and family members, protective measures, and medical violence. 39.1%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/06\/psychological-impact-of-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-on-healthcare-workers-in-china\/\">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-4923","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\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4924,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}