Occupational well-being in medical workers in Inner Mongolia after the Normalized Epidemic Prevention and Control Strategy: A cross-sectional study

Abstract

Little is known about the status of occupational well-being among the Chinese medical workers after the implementation of Normalized Epidemic Prevention and Control strategy as most studies are performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was designed to investigate the occupational well-being among the medical workers in our city in the COVID-19 after the release of Normalized Epidemic Prevention and Control Strategy since May 7, 2020 in mainland China. We included the medical workers involved in the front-line of COVID-19 that were randomly selected from 7 hospitals in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The occupational well-being among medical workers was evaluated using the modified occupational well-being scales and the symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) scale. Then Logistic regression analysis was given to identify the risk factors that may affect the occupational well-being among the medical workers. Our data showed that hospital type (p < 0.01), hospital grade (p < 0.01), marital status (p < 0.01) and monthly income (p < 0.01) were independent risk factors for the occupational well-being among the medical workers. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, somatization, phobic anxiety, depression and interpersonal sensitivity were risk factors for poor occupational well-being. Therefore, attention should be given to the occupational well-being of the medical workers. Meanwhile, appropriate measurements are necessary to improve their working quality.

Keywords:

• COVID19
• medical worker
• occupational well-being
• regression analysis

Authors’ contribution

Conceptualization and Methodology: Xiaoling Ma; Formal analysis and investigation: Lina Zhang; Writing – original draft: Lina Zhang; Writing – review & editing: Xiaoling Ma. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

This study was performed according to the convention of the Declaration of Helsinki. The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Baotou Medical College (Approval No.: 2021-016). Informed consent was obtained from all the participants.

Data availability statement

The data used to support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Baotou Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project under Grant 2018-yy04; and Inner Mongolia Health Policy Research Project under Grant HP2022007.