Anxiety, depression and influencing factors of workers engaged in public health emergency prevention and control in villages of a town in Shanghai

  Objective  To understand the current situation and influencing factors of anxiety and depression of workers engaged in public health emergency prevention and control in grass-roots village of a town in Shanghai, and to provide basis for providing the psychological service system for them.

  Methods  A random cluster sampling method was used to investigate workers engaged in public health emergency prevention and control in 19 village neighborhood committees of a town in Shanghai. The subjects were surveyed with generalized anxiety scale (GAD-7) and depression symptom group scale (PHQ-9). The data were analyzed by multivariate non-conditional logistic regression.

  Results  Totally 421 subjects were studied and among them village residents, police officers and medical personnel account for 42.76%, 25.65% and 31.59% respectively. The positive rate of anxiety of these subjects was 60.6%, and the positive rate of depression was 61.8%, which were mainly mild; The positive rate of anxiety and depression was 56.3%. Logistic regression analysis showed that the risk of anxiety, depression, and combined anxiety and depression of village residents were 0.371, 0.424 and 0.486 times higher than that of medical personnel, respectively (P < 0.05);the risk of anxiety, depression, and combined anxiety and depression symptoms of the respondents with low life pressure were 0.218, 0.286, and 0.301 times higher than those with high life pressure, respectively(P < 0.05);the risk of depression, combined anxiety and depressive symptoms was 0.286 times and 0.194 times higher in the subjects with less work pressure (all P < 0.05);the risk of anxiety and depression was 0.219 times higher in subjects with good subjective health evaluation than in subjects with poor subjective health evaluation(P < 0.05).

  Conclusions  The workers engaged in public health emergency prevention and control in villages of a town in Shanghai had some anxiety and depression symptoms, but the symptoms were mild. Corresponding psychological service system should be established in the village to provide necessary psychological health care services.