1. The Attitude towards Preventive Measures and Knowledge of COVID-19 Inpatients with Severe Mental Illness in Economically Underdeveloped Areas of China
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Ju Hong Zhu, Chun Hu Zhang, Li Guo Gao, Xiao Ning Huo, Hong Min Jin, Yu-Tao Xiang, Wen Li, Jin De Yun, Bin Yang, Brian J. Hall, and Teris Cheung
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Adult ,Hospitals, Psychiatric ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,China ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,education ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Poverty Areas ,Pandemic ,Severe mental illness ,Economically underdeveloped ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Original Paper ,Inpatients ,Transmission (medicine) ,business.industry ,Risk of infection ,Public health ,Mental Disorders ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,Middle Aged ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,030227 psychiatry ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Attitude ,Family medicine ,Female ,business - Abstract
Patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) were at high risk of infection during Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study examined hospitalized SMI patients’ attitude and knowledge towards the COVID-19 infection. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in five psychiatric hospitals located in Gansu province, the most economically underdeveloped area in China. Patients’ attitude towards preventive measures and knowledge of COVID-19 were measured by a self-report questionnaire. A total of 925 hospitalized patients with SMI were recruited. Of them, 84.8% (95%CI: 82.4%–87.1%) had positive attitudes towards preventive measures of the COVID-19 outbreak. Being married (OR: 1.55, 95%CI: 1.05–2.30) and a higher educational level (OR: 1.63, 95%CI: 1.12–2.38) were independently associated with positive attitudes towards COVID-19 preventive measures, whereas higher educational level was associated with better knowledge of the COVID-19 outbreak (β: 0.231, P
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- 2020