Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Sci Prog. 2021 Apr-Jun;104(2):368504211010571. doi: 10.1177/00368504211010571.
The COVID-19 pandemic may cause psychological distress, changes in numbers and distributions of patients in spine surgery patients, which all affect the strategies of spine surgery treatment. These changes may be related to the number of new COVID-19 cases per day since they are visual indicators of the changes in the epidemic and are of interest to the public. This descriptive research took the spine surgery department as an example in a Grade-A tertiary hospital in Anhui province, China. The number and distribution of patients from January 24 to April 2, 2020 was collected and compared with the past 5 years. A psychological scale was constructed to assess the psychological distress of patients and the number of new COVID-19 cases per day in Anhui, China was collected each day from January 24 to April 2, 2020. Also, this research compared these variables with the emergency response or the number of new COVID-19 cases per day. All distributions dropped dramatically during first-level emergency response and then back to normal. The psychological distress of patients was relatively higher at the beginning of the outbreak and then gradually returned to normal. The trends between the psychological distress of patients and the number of new COVID-19 cases per day were similar. The number of new COVID-19 cases per day could be used to predict psychological distress, changes in patient numbers and distributions, which was beneficial for the department of spine surgery to adjust its treatment strategy during the epidemic.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）大流行可能导致心理困扰、脊柱外科患者数量和分布的变化，这些变化均影响脊柱外科的治疗策略。这些变化可能与每日新增 COVID-19 病例数有关，因为它们是疫情变化的直观指标，引起公众关注。本研究以安徽省某三级甲等医院脊柱外科为研究对象，收集并比较了 2020 年 1 月 24 日至 4 月 2 日的患者数量和分布情况，并与过去 5 年的数据进行了比较。构建心理量表评估患者的心理困扰，每日收集安徽省的新增 COVID-19 病例数。将这些变量与应急响应或新增 COVID-19 病例数进行比较。一级应急响应后所有分布均急剧下降，然后恢复正常。患者心理困扰在疫情开始时相对较高，然后逐渐恢复正常。患者心理困扰与新增 COVID-19 病例数之间的趋势相似。新增 COVID-19 病例数可用于预测心理困扰、患者数量和分布的变化，这有助于脊柱外科在疫情期间调整治疗策略。
