As a result of COVID-19, 50.58% of medical staff experienced the anxiety of varying degrees, 48.37% experienced depression of varying degrees, 16.11% had poor or very poor stress resistance, and 71.78% had poor or very poor sleep quality. In addition, in general data, gender and job position showed statistically significant differences in four aspects of anxiety, depression, stress resistance, and sleep, while other aspects, such as educational background, marital status, and professional title, could have an impact on one or more of the above four aspects.
By the investigation and research during SARS, medical staff is likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, panic, and other emotional and unstable problems during the epidemic. In the face of the universal participation in large-scale infectious public health events, both epidemic frontline staff and abide by the labor of medical workers for jobs, have greater responsibility and are exhausted, they are constantly in the process of work experience thrown challenges, thus triggering a series of related symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and performance. At this stage, according to the real-time updates of the epidemic situation, the development of the epidemic in China has been controlled, and the number of COVID-19 cases abroad is still gradually increasing. We still need to be vigilant to control imported cases and prevent the domestic epidemic from rebounding. Therefore, before a clear treatment plan for the epidemic and the successful development of relevant vaccines, in the long-term battle of epidemic prevention and control, medical staff should be in a good state of mind, and keepingkeepthy and relaxed state at all times is very important to maintain the overall control of the epidemic.
The overall mental health status and sleep quality of female medical staff and doctors and nurses are more significant than those of other groups, which is consistent with studies by Noguchi et al. that gender is one of the factors affecting disaster treatment. Further data review analysis found that it may be related to the large proportion of nurses (69.47%) in female medical staff (77.76%). Nurses need to frequently enter infected areas and work areas for nursing operations, and invasive nursing operations such as infusion and wound care are carried out for a long time. Frequent close contact with all kinds of patients and longer working hours than usual, and even in some work areas such as emergency fever clinics, wearing protective clothing also need time for nursing operations, wearing protective clothing will directly affect the diet of all hospitals nurses drinking water, toilet (especially physiological period), and other basic life activities, to form a larger psychological pressure. The onset of COVID-19 is sudden and fierce, and the experience and treatment methods that can be used for reference in the early stage are relatively insufficient. Therefore, medical personnel needs to constantly find the best solution to the epidemic. The high degree of medical staff usually have stronger learning ability and spirit, knowledge reserve is relatively rich, can be more comfortable in the working state, reflected in the mental health status can be characterized by strong compressive capacity, compressive ability scores and anxiety, depression, sleep quality can influence each other, that is when the compressive ability strong, anxiety and depression are not obvious, the sleep quality is better also. In terms of marital status, consistent with the research results of Lai et al., married people have more stable emotional performance than unmarried people, divorced people, or widowed people because they have more stable social and family members’ strong support and can obtain strong psychological support. Besides the lack of social and family support, divorced or widowed people are more likely to face negative events in their lives and deal with them mainly by negative thinking, which makes them more likely to produce negative emotions such as anxiety and depression. For medical workers with professional titles at the primary level, due to the short working time and lack of clinical accumulated work experience, the suddenly increased work burden may lead to insufficient inner support and emotional fluctuations, and the emotional experience of being understood, supported and respected in the work process is relatively insufficient. To sum up, the above factors have an impact on mental health and sleep quality.