Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Research Centre for Human Development, Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory, Porto, Portugal.
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina - Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal.
Front Public Health. 2022 May 19;10:850376. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.850376. eCollection 2022.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, leading to changes in one's personal and working life. Researchers have undergone extensive changes in their roles, mainly in the area of health care, with research into the virus now the priority.
To assess the anxiety, depression, stress, fears, and coping strategies of Portuguese researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A total of 243 researchers, with an average age of 37.9 ± 9.6, participated in an online questionnaire. The study was performed between 1 June 2021 and 11 August 2021. The questionnaire included depression, anxiety, and stress (DASS-21), fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19S), and coping inventory for stressful situations (CISS).
The findings suggest being female and younger seem to be related to more significant fears. Singles and younger researchers showed higher values of stress, depression, and anxiety. Research areas, such as medical and health sciences, presented higher levels in the DASS-21 depression and stress scale ( < 0.05). Also, the results showed a moderate or moderate strong significant positive linear relationship between the scales ( < 0.001): DASS-21 stress, DASS-21 anxiety, and DASS-21 depression ( > 0.70); CISS-21 emotional-oriented with DASS-21 stress ( = 0.683), DASS-21 depression ( = 0.622), and DASS-21 anxiety ( = 0.557); and emotional fear and cognitive fear ( = 0.652).
The findings of this study support the growing concern for the psychological well-being of researchers and the need for intervention with more extensive and diverse studies.
评估葡萄牙研究人员在 COVID-19 大流行期间的焦虑、抑郁、压力、恐惧和应对策略。
共有 243 名平均年龄为 37.9 ± 9.6 岁的研究人员参与了在线问卷调查。该研究于 2021 年 6 月 1 日至 2021 年 8 月 11 日进行。问卷包括抑郁、焦虑和压力量表（DASS-21）、COVID-19 恐惧量表（FCV-19S）和应对压力情境量表（CISS）。
研究结果表明，女性和年轻似乎与更严重的恐惧有关。单身和年轻的研究人员表现出更高的压力、抑郁和焦虑值。医学和健康科学等研究领域在 DASS-21 抑郁和压力量表中呈现出更高的水平（<0.05）。此外，研究结果还表明，各量表之间存在中度或中度强显著正线性关系（<0.001）：DASS-21 压力、DASS-21 焦虑和 DASS-21 抑郁（>0.70）；CISS-21 情绪导向与 DASS-21 压力（=0.683）、DASS-21 抑郁（=0.622）和 DASS-21 焦虑（=0.557）；以及情绪恐惧和认知恐惧（=0.652）。
本研究结果支持对研究人员心理健康日益关注的观点，并需要通过更广泛和多样化的研究进行干预。
