PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Miao, Qunfang
AU  - Xie, Lin
AU  - Xing, Bingyu
AU  - Wang, Xiaolei
AU  - Tang, Shiming
AU  - Luo, Hong
TI  - Emotional states and coping methods in nursing and non-nursing students responding to COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in China
AID  - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054007
DP  - 2021 Aug 01
TA  - BMJ Open
PG  - e054007
VI  - 11
IP  - 8
4099  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/8/e054007.short
4100  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/8/e054007.full
SO  - BMJ Open2021 Aug 01; 11
AB  - Objectives To evaluate the emotion, coping strategy, dealing methods and their correlation in the COVID-19 outbreak among nursing and non-nursing students.Design and setting A cross-sectional online survey.Participants Full-time nursing and non-nursing undergraduate students.Main outcome measure The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) were used to determine the emotional status in the COVID-19 pandemic among nursing and non-nursing students. Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) was used to measure the emotion regulation strategies and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) was used to evaluate the coping methods among nursing and non-nursing students.Results In total, 746 students including 366 nursing students and 380 non-nursing students participated in the survey. Compared with the non-nursing students, a significant decrease was noticed in GAD-7 score (p<0.01) and PHQ-9 (p<0.01) in the nursing students. The cognition re-evaluation score in the nursing students was significantly lower than that of the non-nursing students (p<0.05). In the nursing students, the score of anxiety was positively correlated with ERQ expression inhibition (p<0.01) and SCSQ negative coping (p<0.01), while the score of depression was also positively correlated with ERQ expression inhibition (p<0.01) and SCSQ negative coping (p<0.01). There was a negative correlation between SCSQ and the scores of anxiety (p<0.05) and depression (p<0.05). In the non-nursing students, the anxiety score was positively correlated with the SCSQ negative coping (p<0.01), while the depression score was positively correlated with the ERQ expression inhibition (p<0.01) and SCSQ negative coping (p<0.01).Conclusions COVID-19 affected the emotional status of nursing and non-nursing students. The emotional status was correlated with the emotional regulation and coping methods. Staff involved in the nursing professionals should pay attention to the psychological status of the nursing and non-nursing students, and give moderate psychological interference in the presence of COVID-19.Data are available on reasonable request.