Investigation research on cognition, prevention and control behavior and psychosomatic healthy status of different types of adults during the epidemic period of corona virus disease-19/ 新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情期间不同类别成年人对疫情的认知和防控行为及心身健康状态调查研究

To investigate the basic cognition, prevention and control behavior and secondary crisis of psychosomatic health in different types of adults during the epidemic period of corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) Methods February 5-7, 2020, with Guangdong Province as the center, the adults without history of psychosomatic diseases were studied by using the questionnaires including demographic parameters, self-rating depression scale (SDS), self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and suboptimal health status (SHS) questionnaire-2 (SHSQ-25) The subjects were classified by gender, occupation, city, town and village residence The differences in cognition, prevention and control behaviors and psychosomatic health status of different types of adults were compared Results A total of1 376 valid questionnaires were collected, including 380 males and 996 females There were 98 0% (1348/1376) of the subjects focused on the epidemic situation reports of COVID-19 every day, 54 7% (753/1376) of subjects got COVID-19 related information on the networks and 41 6% (573/1376) by watching television as their main route of access The subjects had a high awareness rate of the transmission pathway of COVID-19, with droplet transmission of 99 9% (1375 persons) and contact transmission of 88 2% (1214 persons), respectively Females paid more attention to taking various prevention measures than males The rate of depression and anxiety symptoms in females was significantly higher than those in males [19 9% (198/996) vs 12 9% (49/380), 9 3% (93/996) vs 5 8% (22/380)], and the incidence of SHS in village was significantly lower than that in city [57 8% (11/192) vs 68 1% (648/951)], with statistically significant difference (all P<0 05) Conclusions During the epidemic period of COVID-19, adults know the epidemic information mainly through the internet and television Most of correct prevention measures can be taken in adults The rate of depression and anxiety status in females was higher than that in males The incidence of SHS in village was higher than that in city It cannot yet be considered that there is a secondary crisis of mental and physical health related to COVID-19