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.