Open Access<p>Individual Perceived Stress Mediates Psychological Distress in Medical Workers During COVID-19 Epidemic Outbreak in Wuhan</p>
Author(s) -
Chen Zhang,
Daihui Peng,
Lu Liu,
Kaiming Zhuo,
Kai Yu,
Tian Shen,
Yifeng Xu,
Zhen Wang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s266151
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , depression (economics) , perceived stress scale , patient health questionnaire , distress , cross sectional study , acute stress disorder , logistic regression , outbreak , psychiatry , clinical psychology , odds ratio , psychological intervention , stress (linguistics) , depressive symptoms , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
Since the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, thousands of medical workers have been dispatched to support Wuhan against the virus. The purpose of this study was to identify the independent risk factors for psychological distress in order to develop a more effective strategy and precise evidence-based psychological intervention for medical workers.