Yadav Anupam Singh, Kumar Ashutosh
Department of Psychiatry, Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2022 Jan-Jun;31(1):113-119. doi: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_200_20. Epub 2022 Jan 5.
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has a severe impact on the health-care system worldwide bringing doctors under immense pressure to work under stressful conditions. The main objective of this study was to assess anxiety among doctors and to understand the perceived causes of anxiety.
Questionnaires were made available to all willing doctors of SN Medical College, Agra; King George's Medical University, Lucknow, and GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, between May 12, 2020, and June 20, 2020 (during nationwide lockdown). The questionnaire consists of three main sections: details about respondents' working status, questions regarding respondents' reasons for concern, and Becks' Anxiety Inventory (BAI) scale.
Two hundred and fifty responses were received from about 599 doctors presented with the questionnaire. About 32% of the respondents have already done duties in COVID facilities and the rest are awaiting deployment at those facilities. Forty-two percent reported concern regarding transmitting the illness to close ones/loved ones/family members to be a cause of anxiety and 40% were worried about the quality of protective gear closely followed by examination-related worries. About 28.8% of the respondents scored >7 on BAI with 62.5% of these (18% of total respondents) reporting "moderate" levels of anxiety.
Our findings underline the fact that pandemics such as COVID-19 cause significant levels of anxiety among doctors. The levels of anxiety differed for age, sex, and specialty. The perceived causes were the risk of transmitting to loved ones and concerns regarding protective gear. These outcomes highlight the need for early interventions to address anxiety and to provide support for doctors during such crises.
当前的新型冠状病毒肺炎大流行对全球医疗系统造成了严重影响，使医生在压力巨大的条件下工作。本研究的主要目的是评估医生的焦虑情绪，并了解其焦虑的感知原因。
在2020年5月12日至2020年6月20日（全国封锁期间），向阿格拉SN医学院、勒克瑙乔治国王医学院和坎普尔GSVM医学院所有愿意参与的医生发放问卷。问卷包括三个主要部分：受访者工作状态的详细信息、受访者担忧原因的问题以及贝克焦虑量表（BAI）。
在约599名收到问卷的医生中，共收到250份回复。约32%的受访者已经在新冠治疗设施中履行职责，其余人员正在等待被部署到这些设施。42%的受访者表示担心将疾病传染给亲近的人/爱人/家庭成员是焦虑的一个原因，40%的人担心防护装备的质量，紧随其后的是与检查相关的担忧。约28.8%的受访者在BAI上得分>7，其中62.5%（占总受访者的18%）报告有“中度”焦虑水平。
我们的研究结果强调了这样一个事实，即像新型冠状病毒肺炎这样的大流行会在医生中引起显著程度的焦虑。焦虑水平在年龄、性别和专业方面存在差异。感知到的原因是传染给亲人以及对防护装备的担忧。这些结果凸显了在这类危机期间需要早期干预来解决焦虑并为医生提供支持。
