Immediate Psychological Impact on Nurses working at 42 Government-Designated Hospital During COVID-19 Outbreak in China: a cross-sectional study

At the end of 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China (C. Wang, Horby, Hayden,& Gao, 2020), and has subsequently gained intense attention globally. COVID-19 is an emerging and easily clustering infectious disease. Because of the highly infectious nature of and limited knowledge about COVID-19, healthcare workers are under extreme physical and psychological pressure while on duty. They are not only at elevated risk of getting infected, but also have been reported to experience depression, anxiety, insomnia, stigma, and frustration (Chen et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020).

Source: Nursing Outlook - July 18, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Su Hong, Ming Ai, Xiaoming Xu, Wo Wang, Jianmei Chen, Qi Zhang, Lixia Wang, Li Kuang Source Type: research