id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-300619-uu3e4pjw Tan, Wanqiu Is Returning to Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic Stressful? A Study on Immediate Mental Health Status and Psychoneuroimmunity Prevention Measures of Chinese Workforce 2020-04-23 .txt text/plain 4804 221 44 Workforce returning to work was invited to complete an online questionnaire regarding their attitude toward the COVID-19 epidemic and return-to-work along with psychological parameters including the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale21 (DASS-21) and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). In contrast, personal psychoneuroimmunity prevention measures including hand hygiene and wearing face masks as well as organizational measures including significant improvement of workplace hygiene and concerns from the company were associated with less severe psychiatric symptoms (p<0.05). The objective of this study was to identify demographic and psychoneuroimmunity preventive measures that determined the mental health of the members of the workforce who returned to work when the risk for contracting COVID-19 remains unknown. There were no significant differences between workers/technical staff and managers/executives in the mean score and severity of PTSD symptoms, depression, anxiety, stress and insomnia (p > 0.05). ./cache/cord-300619-uu3e4pjw.txt ./txt/cord-300619-uu3e4pjw.txt