Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: May 23, 2020
Date Accepted: Jul 7, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Jul 8, 2020
Survey on Knowledge and Psychological Crisis Related to COVID-19 among Nursing Staff: A Cross-sectional Study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Since December 2019, the prevalence of COVID-19 is rapidly spreading in the world. Nurses play a key role in fighting this disease and are at risk of infection by virus. Therefore, there is a urging need to assess their mental health condition and set up appropriate interventions to reduce the negative psychiatric outcomes.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and psychological crisis related to COVID-19 among nursing staff, and to provide evidence for targeted training and psychological intervention.
Methods:
This cross-sectional, online survey based study was performed in a Class IIIA general hospital of Sichuan province, China from March 1 to March 15, 2020. A self-designed questionnaire of COVID-19 related prevention and control knowledge and the Triages Assessment Form (TAF) were used to assess nursing staff’s knowledge of COVID-19 and their degree of psychological crisis. SPSS 23.0 was applied to compute the collected data.
Results:
A total of 979 nursing staff completed the questionnaire. The results showed that nursing staff have insufficient knowledge of continuous pathogenic nucleic acid testing specifications, debarment criteria, and management measures for patients with suspected symptoms. The overall score of the TAF was 7.0 (5.0-12.0), and there were statistical significance in scores between different types of personnel, years of service and working department (P < 0.05)
Conclusions:
This study indicated that nursing staff have insufficient knowledge about COVID-19. Meanwhile, despite the psychological damage of nursing staff is slight, nurse manager must continue to monitor their mental health and take timely interventions.
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