4. Discussion
During COVID-19 outbreaks, the ER effectively cut off the virus spread
in Anhui. However, the quarantine and trauma
related psychological distress should
not be ignored, which may adversely affect the course of the disease,
the treatment process, and reduce quality of
life(Brooks et al., 2020;
Cukor et al., 2011;
Jarosz, Syed, Blachut, & Badura Brzoza,
2020). The trend of mental status may due to normal panic at the
beginning of the outbreaks and then gradually adapted to the situation.
However, the scores not fell to zero, which may be attributed the
constant worry about the outbreaks reappear or just nervous due to their
spine diseases. Therefore, more
humanistic approaches are required,
including solving their problems in life, sending positive and
optimistic attitude towards life and reducing their fear on COVID-19.
However, It was important to attach importance to the preventive
measures on COVID-19 while relieve their panic. Notably, the figures of
psychological scores and newly confirmed patients showed similar trends,
but the connection between them required farther research to verified.
In the present study, we took the spine surgery department as an example
to investigate the mental status of patients, yet patients in other
departments may encounter a similar situation. Meanwhile, China has got
the virus fully under control while the outbreaks in many other
countries is becoming much worse, which means the potential impacts on
the mental status of patients cannot be ignored. All of these alerts
required further studies to verified.