Psychological symptoms of public under COVID-19 outbreak and improvement of emergency management system

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn 1003-3033.2020.11.005

Abstract

Abstract: In order to support current and future epidemic prevention and control, between January 31 to February 2, 2020, SCL-90 online questionnaire and snow sampling method were applied to investigate psychological symptoms and performance of 1 060 ordinary Chinese people under level I emergency response after outbreak of COVID-19. The results show that their psychological symptoms during level I emergency response to COVID-19 (P＜0.05) are generally worse than that of SCL-90 norms in 1986 and 2018. Three dimensions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression and interpersonal sensitivity, indicate the most severe symptoms, and they were the worst among people over 60 years of age. To stabilize social mentality, government should act as soon as possible to fill up blank of emergency response plan and psychological intervention and psychological aid in emergency management system by taking corresponding measures to reduce people's psychological symptoms.

Key words: corona virus disease 2019(COVID-19) outbreak, ordinary citizens, psychological symptom, emergency management system, symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90)

CLC Number:

X911

TIAN Fangyuan, TIAN Shuicheng, LI Hongxia, ZHENG Ya, SHAO Jiang. Psychological symptoms of public under COVID-19 outbreak and improvement of emergency management system[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2020, 30(11): 30-36.

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