Correlation between psychological health level, the characteristic and coping style in nurses working in infectious diseases department of four general hospitals in Xi'an

Objective To explore the association between psychological health level and the characteristic and coping style in nurses working in infectious disease department. Methods 98 nurses in infectious disease department were selected as experimental group and 118 nurses in internal department were selected as control group. All the subjects were from four grade-3 hospitals in Xi' an city and investigated by SCL-90. Individuals in experimental group were investigated by EPQ and CSQ, besides the SCL-90. Results Compared with common mode of healthy Chinese women, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid scores in SCL-90 was lower and the differences were statistically significant (all P ＜ 0. 05), other factors did not reach the statistical significance (P＞0. 05), and differences of all the factors score and total score in SCL-90 between the two groups did not reach the statistical significance (P ＞ 0. 05). Seeking help coping style in experimental group was negatively correlated with interpersonal sensitivity and depression degree (r = -0. 28, -0. 29,P ＜0. 05 or P ＜0. 01),other coping styles such as self-blame, fantasy, avoidance, and rationalization were positively correlated with majority factors in SCL-90 (P ＜0. 05 or P ＜0. 01). P dimension in EPQ in experimental group was positively correlated with terror, paranoia, and psychosis in SCL-90 (r = - 0. 26,0. 34,0. 28, P ＜ 0. 05 or P ＜ 0. 01)and N dimension in EPQ in experimental group was positively correlated with all the factors in SCL-90(P ＜0. 01), E dimension in EPQ in experimental group was negatively correlated with interpersonal sensitivity,depression degree, anxiety, and terror factors in SCL-90 (P ＜ 0. 05 or P ＜ 0. 01). Conclusions Overall psychological level of nurses working in infectious disease department of comprehensive hospitals in Xi' an city was good. The psychological events were not statistically different between the nurses in infectious department and nurses in internal department. Psychological health level and the characteristic were correlated with coping style in nurses working in infectious disease department of general hospital in Xi' an city. Key words: Nurses working in infectious diseases department ;  Psychological health; Characteristic;  Coping style