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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ide, Keiko
• Asami, Takeshi
• Suda, Akira
• Yoshimi, Asuka
• Fujita, Junichi
• Nomoto, Munetaka
• Roppongi, Tomohide
• Hino, Kousuke
• Takahashi, Yuichi
• Watanabe, Kaori
• Shimada, Tomoko
• Hamasaki, Toyoko
• Endo, Emi
• Kaneko, Tomoko
• Suzuki, Michiko
• Kubota, Kazumi
• Saigusa, Yusuke
• Kato, Hideaki
• Odawara, Toshinari
• Nakajima, Hideaki
• Takeuchi, Ichiro
• Goto, Takahisa
• Aihara, Michiko
• Hishimoto, Akitoyo
• Hashimoto, Kenji

Titel

The psychological effects of COVID-19 on hospital workers at the beginning of the outbreak with a large disease cluster on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2021-01, Vol.16 (1), p.e0245294

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychological effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and associated factors on hospital workers at the beginning of the outbreak with a large disease cluster on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. This cross-sectional, survey-based study collected demographic data, mental health measurements, and stress-related questionnaires from workers in 2 hospitals in Yokohama, Japan, from March 23, 2020, to April 6, 2020. The prevalence rates of general psychological distress and event-related distress were assessed using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the 22-item Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), respectively. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the 26-item stress-related questionnaires. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with mental health outcomes for workers both at high- and low-risk for infection of COVID-19. A questionnaire was distributed to 4133 hospital workers, and 2697 (65.3%) valid questionnaires were used for analyses. Overall, 536 (20.0%) were high-risk workers, 944 (35.0%) of all hospital workers showed general distress, and 189 (7.0%) demonstrated event-related distress. Multivariable logistic regression analyses revealed that 'Feeling of being isolated and discriminated' was associated with both the general and event-related distress for both the high- and low-risk workers. In this survey, not only high-risk workers but also low-risk workers in the hospitals admitting COVID-19 patients reported experiencing psychological distress at the beginning of the outbreak.