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ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021

COVID-19 negatively impacts on psychological and somatic status in frontline nurses.

Jialin Li, Qing Su, Xiaofei Li, Yanqiu Peng, Yan Liu

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Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Jialin LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155, Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China.
Qing SuDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155, Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China.
Xiaofei LiDepartment of Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155, Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China.
Yanqiu PengDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155, Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China.
Yan LiuDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155, Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China. Electronic address: cwx0609@sina.com.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCOVID-19 has become a public health emergency based on its clinical characteristics. Previous studies demonstrated that the onset of a sudden and immediately life-threatening illness could lead to extraordinary amounts of psychological pressure on nurses who play an important role in the illness. Whether COVID-19 pandemic has greater impacts on the psychological status and somatic symptoms from nurses who stand in the frontline of this crisis remain unclear.

methodsWe evaluated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and somatic symptoms in the frontline nurses (n = 438) who served in Wuhan, China, during COVID-19 crisis. Nurses who did not worked in the frontline of COVID-19 served as controls (n = 452). The investigation was processed by online questionnaires including: impact of event scale-revised (IES-R) , self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), and somatic symptoms.

resultsPrevalence of moderate and severe PTSD was significantly increased in the frontline nurses compared to non-frontline nurses. Prevalence of mild anxiety was significantly increased in frontline nurses compared to non-frontline nurses. There were more frontline nurses suffering from severe insomnia and losing weight compared to non-frontline nurses. Severity of PTSD (IES-R score), but not severity of anxiety (SAS score) was similarly positively correlated to incidence of insomnia and weight loss in both frontline and non-frontline nurses to a similar extent. LIMITATIONS: The results only represented psychological statues and somatic symptom on one time point thus the development of psychological stress and somatic symptom during pandemic of COVID-19 in the frontline nurses were missing.

conclusionsCOVID-19 negatively impacted on psychological and somatic status in frontline nurses. PTSD may be the most reliability and validity criteria for evaluating psychological and somatic status for frontline nurses of COVID-19.

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COVID-19NursesAnxietyCross-Sectional StudiesDepressionHumansPandemicsReproducibility of ResultsSARS-CoV-2Stress, PsychologicalAnxietyCOVID-19Frontline nursesPost-traumatic stress disorderSomatic symptoms

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PMCPMC8286238
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