Descriptive data
A total of 1521 subjects completed this survey. The descriptive statistics of demographic data were shown in Table1. Samples consisted of 1198 HCWs and 323 non-HCWs who engaged in fighting this epidemic; There were 372 males and 1149 females took part in this study; 1123 participants were married, 380 participants were unmarried, 18 participants were at other situations; 132 participants worked in surgery department (SD),144 participants worked in internal medicine department (IMD), 67 participants worked in obstetrics and gynecology department (OGD), 41 participants worked in emergence room (ER), 32 participants worked in intensive care unit (ICU), 69 participants worked in outpatient department (OPD), 27 participants worked in pediatrics department (PD), 1participant worked in administration department, 7 participants worked in anesthesiology department (AD) and 975 participants didn’t report.
Group differences between HCWs and non-HCWs
As shown in Table2, the outcomes of three scales between HCWS and non-HCWs were compared, there were significant differences on obsessive-compulsive (p = 0.002), depression (p=0.011), anxiety (p=0.037), subjective support (p<0.001), strength (p=0.012) and no significant difference on other subscales. It indicated HCWs suffered more anxiety, depression, obsessive- compulsive, lower subjective support and strength.
Group difference between different hospital department of HCWs
As shown in Table3, we compared the outcomes of HCWs working in different hospital departments on all subscales with one-way ANOVA. It indicated that there were significant differences in subscales of objective support (p = 0.039) and subjective support (p = 0.007) as well as total score of social support (p = 0.034) and no significant differences on other subscales.
We further conducted post hoc test to explorer the differences among HCWs working in different hospital departments and we found that there were significant differences among HCWs on some subscales. HCWs working in IDP had higher level of obsessive–compulsive symptoms than those working in ICU (p = 0.040) and OPD (p = 0.001); HCWs working in OGD had higher level obsessive–compulsive symptoms than those who working in OPD (p = 0.034); HCWs working in IMD had higher level than those working in OPD on the subscales of obsessive compulsive (p = 0.033) and anxiety (p = 0.037) as well as interpersonal sensitivity (p =0.033). There was no significant difference among HCWs on other subscales of SCL-90.
Post hoc test revealed that there were several significant differences in HCWs working in different hospital departments on the subscales of SSRS. HCWs working in AD had lower level of objective support than HCWs who working in SD (p =0.018); HCWs working in OPD had higher level of subjective support than HCWs who working in IMD (p < 0.001), OGD (p = 0.016), ER (p = 0.014) and ICU (p = 0.002); HCWs working in SD had higher total score of SSRS than HCWs who working in IMD (p = 0.001), OGD (p = 0.031) and ER (p = 0.035).
Beside differences on subscales of SCL-90 and SSRS, HCWs working in different hospital departments also had differences on subscales of CD-RISC. HCWs working in IMD had lower level of tenacity than those who working in SD (p = 0.007) and OPD (p =0.008), but there was no significant difference among HCWs working in other departments on this subscale. Moreover, HCWs working in IMD had lower level of strength than those working in SD (p = 0.012), ICU (p = 0.046), OPD (p = 0.023) and AD (0.028), but there was no significant difference among HCWs working in other departments on this subscale. HCWs working in IMD had lower level of optimism than those who working in ICU (p = 0.042) and OPD (p = 0.004), but there was no significant difference among HCWs working in other departments on this subscale. HCWs working in IMD had lower resilience than those who working in SD (p = 0.011), ICU (p = 0.046) and OPD (p = 0.007), but there was no significant difference among HCWs working in other departments on this subscale.