Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak
Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0231924
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发表时间：
2020-04-16
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3.7
通讯作者：
Dai, Junming
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作者：
Gao, Junling;Zheng, Pinpin;Dai, Junming
在中国武汉爆发新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）期间，大量市民暴露在社交媒体上。我们评估了心理健康问题的患病率，并研究了它们与社交媒体曝光的关系。在2020年1月31日至2月2日期间，在年龄≥ 18岁的中国公民中进行了一项横断面研究。采用网上调查的方法进行快速评估。共有来自31个省、自治区的4872名受试者参与了本研究。除人口统计学和社交媒体暴露（SME）外，抑郁采用WHO-5中文版，焦虑采用广泛性焦虑量表（GAD-7）中文版。在控制协变量后，使用多变量逻辑回归来确定社交媒体暴露与心理健康问题之间的关联。在中国武汉COVID-19爆发期间，抑郁、焦虑和抑郁和焦虑组合（CDA）的患病率分别为48.3%（95%CI：46.9%-49.7%）、22.6%（95%CI：21.4%-23.8%）和19.4%（95%CI：18.3%-20.6%）。超过80%（95%CI：80.9%-83.1%）的参与者表示经常接触社交媒体。在控制了协变量后，与较少的SME相比，频繁的SME与焦虑（OR = 1.72，95%CI：1.31-2.26）和CDA（OR = 1.91，95%CI：1.52-2.41）的高几率呈正相关。我们的研究结果显示，心理健康问题的患病率很高，这与COVID-19爆发期间频繁的SME呈正相关。提示政府在应对突发公共卫生事件的同时，应重视一般人群的心理健康问题，尤其是抑郁和焦虑问题，以及应对“信息流行病”问题。
Huge citizens expose to social media during a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbroke in Wuhan, China. We assess the prevalence of mental health problems and examine their association with social media exposure. A cross-sectional study among Chinese citizens aged >= 18 years old was conducted during Jan 31 to Feb 2, 2020. Online survey was used to do rapid assessment. Total of 4872 participants from 31 provinces and autonomous regions were involved in the current study. Besides demographics and social media exposure (SME), depression was assessed by The Chinese version of WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) and anxiety was assessed by Chinese version of generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7). multivariable logistic regressions were used to identify associations between social media exposure with mental health problems after controlling for covariates. The prevalence of depression, anxiety and combination of depression and anxiety (CDA) was 48.3% (95%CI: 46.9%-49.7%), 22.6% (95%CI: 21.4%-23.8%) and 19.4% (95%CI: 18.3%-20.6%) during COVID-19 outbroke in Wuhan, China. More than 80% (95%CI:80.9%-83.1%) of participants reported frequently exposed to social media. After controlling for covariates, frequently SME was positively associated with high odds of anxiety (OR = 1.72, 95%CI: 1.31-2.26) and CDA (OR = 1.91, 95%CI: 1.52-2.41) compared with less SME. Our findings show there are high prevalence of mental health problems, which positively associated with frequently SME during the COVID-19 outbreak. These findings implicated the government need pay more attention to mental health problems, especially depression and anxiety among general population and combating with "infodemic" while combating during public health emergency.