Changes in Compliance With Personal Preventive Measures and Mental Health Status Among Chinese Factory Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Prospective Cohort Study

Frontiers in Public Health

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Jinqiu Yuan¹  Bolin Cao³  Changhua Zhang⁴  Paul Shing-fong Chan⁵  Meiqi Xin⁵  Yuan Fang⁶  Yaoxi Chen³  Dongfeng Huang⁷  Lifang Li⁷  Xujun Xuan⁸  Gengpeng Zhang⁹  Yihang Pan¹  Yulong He⁴  Zixin Wang⁵ 

[1] Big Data Center, Precision Medicine Center, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University;Clinical Research Center, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University;School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University;Center for Digestive Disease, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University;JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;Department of Health and Physical Education, The Education University of Hong Kong;Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University;Department of Andrology, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University;Department of Chinese Medicine, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

关键词: compliance with personal preventive measures;    depressive symptoms;    sleep quality;    Chinese factory workers;    observational prospective cohort study;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.831456

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination together with good compliance with personal preventive measures may help eradicate the ongoing pandemic. This observational prospective cohort study investigated the changes in compliance with personal preventive measures, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality among factory workers within a 3-month follow-up period. A total of 663 workers were recruited by a stratified multi-stage cluster sampling in March 2020, and all of them completed a follow-up survey three months later. Multilevel logistic and linear regression models (level 1: factories; level 2: individual participants) were fitted. A significant decline was observed in consistent facemask wearing in workplace (from 98.0 to 90.3%, P < 0.001) and in other public spaces (from 97.1 to 94.4%, P = 0.02), sanitizing hands (from 70.9 to 48.0%, P < 0.001), household disinfection (from 47.7 to 37.9%, P < 0.001) and probable depression (from 14.9 to 1.5%, P < 0.001) over the follow-up period. A significant improvement in avoiding crowded places (from 69.8 to 77.4%, P = 0.002) and sleep quality (proportion of participants reporting poor sleep quality dropped from 3.9 to 1.2%, P = 0.002) was also observed. Efforts are needed to maintain compliance with personal preventive measures during the pandemic. Mental health problems were uncommon and likely to be one-off among Chinese factory workers.

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