The Anxiety Status of Chinese Medical Workers During the Epidemic of COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis
Open Access
- 1 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Korean Neuropsychiatric Association in Psychiatry Investigation
- Vol. 17 (5), 475-480
- https://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2020.0127
Abstract
Objective To analysis the anxiety status of Chinese medical workers during the epidemic of COVID-19 by meta-analysis method. Methods CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data, SinoMed, PubMed, Cochrane, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar and other databases were searched to collect literature on the anxiety status of Chinese medical workers during the epidemic of COVID-19. The retrieval tune is from the database construction to 11/03/2020. Meta-analysis was performed on the included articles by using Stata 16.0 software. Results A total of 7 articles were included, with a total sample size of 7,741 people. Meta-analysis using the random effects model showed that the anxiety score of Chinese medical during the epidemic of COVID-19 was significantly higher than that of the national norm in each study, the difference was statistically significant [SMD (95% CI)=1.145 (0.705-1.584), p<0.001]. Conclusion The anxiety level of Chinese medical workers has increased significantly during the epidemic of COVID-19.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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