Health anxiety in medical employees: A multicentre study

Author:

Chen Qingsong1,Zhang Yuqun23,Zhuang Dongyun4,Mao Xueqin5,Mi Guolin6,Wang Dijuan7,Du Xiangdong8,Yi Zhenghui9,Shen Xinhua10,Sui Yuxiu11,Li Huajie12,Cao Yin13,Zhu Zufu14,Hou Zhenghua3,Li Qibin15,Yuan Yonggui3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Jingjiang Second People’s Hospital, Jingjiang, China

2. School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

3. Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

4. Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

5. Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China

6. The Mental Health Center of Shandong, Jinan, China

7. Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Command, PLA, Nanjing, China

8. Guangji Hospital, Affiliated Suzhou University, Suzhou, China

9. The Mental Health Center of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

10. Huzhou Third Municipal Hospital, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China

11. Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

12. Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurological Disease Changzhou First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China

13. Department of Neurology, Changzhou Second People’s Hospital, Changzhou, China

14. Jiangyin People’s Hospital, Jiangyin, China

15. Guilin Social Welfare Hospital, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin, China

Abstract

Objective The aim of this study was to explore health anxiety (HA) in a sample of hospital medical employees and to identify factors that influence HA. Methods A consecutively recruited sample of 1702 medical employees with or without HA was obtained from 13 hospitals across China. Participants’ demographic and clinical characteristics were collected using a standardized protocol and data collection procedure. Subjects were divided into a HA and non-HA group according to their scores on the Chinese version of the Short Health Anxiety Inventory. Comparisons between groups were conducted and binary logistic regression was used to identify risk factors of HA. Results Total HA prevalence was 30.14%. There were significant differences between the HA and non-HA groups in number of working years, hospital category, sex, marital status, family income, personality, physical disease and education degree. Working in a specialist hospital, being female, being married, low income, introversion, graduate education or above and presence of physical disease were risk factors of HA. Conclusions HA is common in medical employees. More investigation of the long-term impact of HA is warranted.

Funder

Foundation Research Project of Jiangsu Province

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Biochemistry, medical,Cell Biology,Biochemistry,General Medicine

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