Mental Health Problems of HIV Healthcare Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Interactive Effects of Stressors and Coping.
Tianyue MiXueying YangShufang SunXiaoming LiCheuk Chi TamYuejiao ZhouZhiyong ShenPublished in: AIDS and behavior (2020)
HIV healthcare providers might be vulnerable to mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by the stress and coping paradigm, the current study aimed at examining the interactive effects of COVID-19-related stressors and coping on mental health problems. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among 1029 HIV healthcare providers in Guangxi, China. The prevalence of depression and anxiety in the current study was 13.31% and 6.61%, respectively. Results from path analyses revealed that the main effects of COVID-19-related stressors and coping were significant on both depression and anxiety. The interaction of coping and COVID-19-related stressors had significant effects on depression and anxiety. Simple slope tests revealed that more coping behaviors buffered against the negative effect of COVID-19-related stressors on mental health problems. Coping acted as a protective factor that alleviated the harm of COVID-19-related stressors on mental health. Intervention targeting coping management might benefit the mental health of HIV healthcare providers.
Keyphrases
- mental health
- healthcare
- coronavirus disease
- social support
- depressive symptoms
- sars cov
- antiretroviral therapy
- mental illness
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- hiv positive
- hiv aids
- hiv testing
- hepatitis c virus
- randomized controlled trial
- health information
- single cell
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- social media
- risk factors
- cross sectional
- drug induced
- heat stress