The Psychological Status and Self-Efficacy of Nurses During COVID-19Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey

摘要

A novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out and gradually developed into a globalpublic health problem. Health care workers, especially nurses, suffered fromgreat occupational pressure and psychological distress during the outbreak ofinfectious diseases. We performed a cross-sectional survey to investigate thepsychological status and self-efficacy of nurses in public hospital duringCOVID-19 outbreak between 16th and 25th February 2020. A total of 223 nursesparticipated in this study. The prevalence of anxiety and depression symptomswas 40.8% (CI 95%: 34.4%-47.2%) and 26.4% (CI 95%: 20.6%-42.2%), respectively.There was no difference in the prevalence of anxiety symptoms among demographicvariables. There was significant differences in the prevalence of depressionsymptoms according to professional titles (P = .020). The meanscore of self-efficacy was 25.90 ± 7.55. The self-efficacy was negativelycorrelated with anxiety (r = −0.161,P < .05). The psychological status of nurses in publichospital during COVID-19 outbreak needs our attention. Improving nurses’self-efficacy in dealing with emerging infectious diseases may be helpful totheir psychology.