Participants evaluation
Demographic characteristics and psychological health status data were gathered. All participants and researchers were Chinese. Therefore, Chinese language was chosen during the whole research process. Demographic data were self-reported by the interviewees, including gender (male or female), age (<32 or ≥32), classification (COVID-19 survivor, nurse, or hygienist), marriage status (married, or unmarried), and education level (high school and below, college, or bachelor and above).
The SCL90-R questionnaires was composed of 90 items, which were now classified to 9 psychological dimensions listed as: 1. Somatization (SOM); 2. Obsessive-compulsive (O-C); 3. Interpersonal sensitivity (I-S); 4. Depression (DEP); 5. Anxiety (ANX); 6. Anger-hostility (HOS); 7. Phobic anxiety (PHOB); 8. Paranoid ideation (PAR); 9. Psychoticism (PSY). All items were single choice questions, and answers to each entry were rated on a five-point scale from 1 to 5. Mental health status results corresponding to each score were “none”, “mild”, “moderate”, “relatively serious”, and “serious”, respectively. The survey was conducted in private environment spending about 25-30 minutes for each interviewee.