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Zhang, Z. Shi, J. Zhang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
This study is aimed at assessing psychologically the recovering process of a group of SARS
patients after leaving hospital. A total of 141 recovering SARS patients were asked to take part in
a counseling program and to complete questionnaires on psychological adjustment in July 2003. It
was found that among these patients, the females tended to recall the terrified SARS experience
more frequently than the males. The unmarried tended to have more psychological problems than
the married. And the patients who knew the channels leading up to their infection of SARS, seem
to have more psychological problems than those who did not know. Implications of the findings
were discussed.
5068.4 SARS and its effects: Coping with the threat, E.R. Greenglass 1 , A. DeLongis 2 , D.
Lee-Baggley 2 , P. Voorhoeve 2 , The SARS Psychosocial Research Consortium, 1 York University,
Toronto, ON, Canada; 2 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
With the sudden appearance of SARS, reactions included perceived threat, fear, and anxiety. This
paper examines the stressful effects of SARS and the way individuals deal with it. To the extent
that individuals perceived that SARS represented a threat to them, their anxiety and depression
should increase. In coping with the threat of SARS, individuals could engage in behaviours such
as avoidance, preventive coping, instrumental support seeking and interpersonal coping. It was
hypothesized that avoidance coping would be associated with greater perceived threat, anxiety and
depression, while preventive coping, instrumental support seeking and interpersonal coping would
be associated with lower distress. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are
discussed.
5068.5 The emotional and depressive differences between doctors and nurses in SARS, Q.
Hua 1 , J. Zhang 1 , Z. Liu 1 , J. Gao 2 , K. Shi 2 , 1 Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical
Sciences, Beijing, China; 2 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Data of 1532 doctors and nurses who were working in SARS-related hospitals were collected to
investigate emotional & depressive difference. Doctors got higher score than nurses on general
health, got lower on SDS. Both got higher than normal people on SDS. SDS score correlated with
“being short of the support from the social”, “bed treating and living condition”, “being short of
the support from relatives”, and so on, but reversely correlated with the degree of the exercise and
educational level. Compared with the nurses, doctors have better mutation. The psychological
intervention should be based on the different causes.
5069 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Changing employment relations: Consequences for employee attitudes and well-being
Convener and Chair: M. Sverke, Sweden
5069.1 Hospital privatization: Its impact on employees’ work climate, attitudes and health, J.
Hellgren, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
During the last decades reorganizations in terms of corporatization and privatization of public
organizations have been frequent. This trend has also affected the Swedish health care sector and
there are now acute care hospitals with different types of ownership. This study is based on data
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