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Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1308573
This article is part of the Research Topic Cognitive and Mental Health Improvement Under- and Post-COVID-19 View all 39 articles

Psychological status of medical security teams in Winter Olympic Games and Paralympics under COVID-19

Provisionally accepted
Xiaoyu Zhu Xiaoyu Zhu 1Yu Zhu Yu Zhu 1Zhiwei Qi Zhiwei Qi 1Ran Li Ran Li 1Yunlong Tan Yunlong Tan 1Zhongwei Yang Zhongwei Yang 2*
  • 1 Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
  • 2 Peking University Third Hospital, Haidian, China

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    Background: Medical security work for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympics faced enormous challenges under COVID-19. This study aimed to investigate the mental status of those medical team members to provide a reference for scientifically implementing medical security services for large-scale events. Methods: In this prospective cohort study, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Self-rating Anxiety Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Psychological Questionnaire for Emergent Events of Public Health (PQEEPH) were administered to 145 members of the medical team. A generalized mixed linear model was used to analyze the impact of work duration, position, on/off rotation, and gender on psychological status.Results: Work duration significantly impacted depression, anxiety, self-efficacy, and all dimensions of PQEEPH. Women scored higher than men in the PQEEPH dimensions of depression, neurasthenia, fear, and total score. Working status affected the dimensions of depression, neurasthenia, and total score. Deterioration in emotional state became apparent in the fourth week and recovered one week after the task concluded, while self-efficacy decreased from beginning to end.All the medical team members experienced emotional deterioration and decreased self-efficacy in medical security tasks. To maintain a medical team's psychological well-being during large-scale activities, rotation times should be set reasonably, and adequate mental health services should be provided.

    Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Responses, Mental Health, Public health emergencies, self-efficacy

    Received: 27 Feb 2024; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhu, Zhu, Qi, Li, Tan and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Zhongwei Yang, Peking University Third Hospital, Haidian, China

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