The mental health and correlated factors of medical team members in an aerospace medical unit before conducting non-war military operations

Abstract

To investigate the mental health and correlated factors of medical team members in an aerospace medical unit before fight COVID-19 pneumonia, which would provide quantitative data to help keeping mental health. Cluster sampling method was used and 193 medical team members were engaged. Eysenck personality questionnaire, symptom checklist-90 and self-made scale were used to evaluate the medical team members’ personality, mental health level, personal protection and risk of infection. The levels of personal protection and risk of infection may have an influence on medical team members’ mental health. Medical team members with low personal protection may more likely to be obsessive-compulsive (t = 3.20, P < 0.01), anxiety (t = 2.00, P < 0.05). Medical team members with high risk of infection may have multiple types of mental problems. Medical team members with higher introversion, higher psychoticism and neuroticism characteristics were more likely to be in low level of mental health. These results could help us to find out the target population of mental protection before military operations other than war.