Psychological Intervention Needs More And More Active Psychological Intervention.

In February 3rd, the national health and Health Committee issued a new coronavirus pneumonia message. Up to 24 hours in February 2nd, 17205 cases of confirmed cases were reported (3 cases of Beijing's subtraction, 1 cases of Jiangxi's subtraction), 2296 cases of severe cases, 361 cases of cumulative deaths, 475 cases of cumulative discharged cases, and 21558 cases of suspected cases.

In the process of prevention and control of the epidemic, mental health of inpatients, home quarantine personnel and front-line workers has also attracted much attention. "With the development of the epidemic, the public needs psychological guidance and positive emotions." On February 3rd, Wang Bin, deputy director of the state health protection and Disease Control Bureau, pointed out at the news conference of the national health and Health Committee.

It is understood that in February 2nd, the State Council issued a circular on the joint prevention and control mechanism of the new type of coronavirus infection, requiring all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to set up a psychological assistance hotline on the basis of the original psychological aid hotline, and to provide 24 hours of free psychological services combined with local public demand.

Psychological counseling needs rise

In the evening of January 31st, a news screen of "Shuanghuanglian could inhibit the new coronavirus". The online pharmacy "Shuanghuanglian" was sold out by the healthy crowd. On the one hand, it showed the public's positive response to the "new crown pneumonia", but on the other hand, it also showed that the public lacks the recognition of Chinese patent medicine, and it also heralded the public's fear of the "new crown pneumonia" and the aggravation of the sense of crisis.

In January 27th, Beijing Normal University launched the epidemic psychological support hotline and network counselling service for the whole country. By the time of February 1st, a total of more than 1000 people were served through the hotline and network guidance. Among them, the general population is the largest, accounting for about 50%; the proportion of front-line medical staff accounts for about 10%, accounting for about 15% of the total number of segregated personnel, and about 5% of the total number of segregated personnel at home, while the rest accounts for about 20%.

In February 3rd, the economic report reporters inquired about the Baidu index in twenty-first Century and found that the daily average of "psychological counseling" information index was 5636, an increase of 1355% over the same period last year. Within 7 days nationwide (from January 28th to February 2nd), the average daily value was 20945, an increase of 7376% over the same period last year. The average growth rate in Hubei province increased by 7984% on the 7 day and 7984% in Wuhan.

Previously, the doctor of micro medicine and Tan Laixun, director of Neurology Department of people's Hospital of Wuhan University, said that the number of inquiring cases of new coronavirus pneumonia has increased sharply in recent weeks, of which 60%-70% patients are all caused by anxiety and tension. Most of the rest of the patients have similar symptoms. Only a few of them need further CT examination. This patient's base can see the anxiety of most people.

A doctor at a designated hospital in Jiangxi said to the twenty-first Century business reporter that the suspected cases in their hospitals are increasing in recent years. Doctors in hospitals only have masks to protect them, and other materials are very scarce. Doctors are also under great pressure every day.

Psychological consultant Joshua said that in his current contact cases, most of the help people came from the front-line staff of large hospitals. They were overloaded, and their physical and mental state continued to be under strong pressure, emotional disorder and even hallucination.

In Joshua's view, excessive panic can cause people's original mental disorder to be out of order, resulting in other sub emotions besides panic. Many negative emotions will be aroused. These emotions will bring side effects to the epidemic.

The Jiangsu Institute of toxicology pointed out that in the face of the "new crown pneumonia" epidemic, the general population may have emotional and behavioral psychological problems. These include fear in mood, anxiety in behavior, heavier physical response, such as fatigue, dizziness, dizziness, sudden heartbeat, sudden increase in blood pressure, involuntary trembling or cramping, poor breathing, throat and chest infarction, memory loss, muscle pain (including head, neck, back pain), gastrointestinal dysfunction, mild diarrhea, and so on.

Deploy psychological intervention more

At the same time, since the outbreak of the epidemic, suspected cases and confirmed cases have been increasing. People who are diagnosed are afraid of serious illness and can not be cured. Suspected cases are worried that they will be diagnosed. These people have greater psychological pressure, which may hinder their treatment and rehabilitation.

In this regard, Yang Fude, director of Huilongguan hospital, pointed out at the above conference that some people would feel pressure and psychological impact when they learned that they were diagnosed or may be diagnosed. The adjustment methods can include self adjustment, psychological assistance hotline or network adjustment, and professional institutions.

"First of all, we need to understand the crisis. After experiencing abnormal events, many people may experience psychological stress. They may experience 4 stages: vigilance period, passive defense stage, reality adaptation period and recovery stage. Most people become more rational after crisis, become more familiar in psychology and behavior, and begin to acquire positive coping skills through certain channels. In the face of stress, we can take some positive measures, including increasing understanding of our state, maintaining stability and adopting positive coping strategies. Yang Fude said that if self-regulation is not effective, call psychological assistance hotline or seek psychological help when necessary.

"In order to further facilitate the public's timely access to advisory services, we have recently asked all provinces to co-ordinate the psychological hotline services of many departments and resources on the basis of the psychological hotlines already available, such as the psychological assistance hotline distributed in education, civil affairs, social organizations and social work organizations, to organize such work teams, and to strengthen training and supervision of these hotlines, and organize them actively to provide standardized psychological assistance services to the public." Wang Bin said.

It is also understood that in January 27th, "the State Council's response to the new outbreak of coronavirus infection and joint prevention and control mechanism" issued the "guiding principle of emergency psychological crisis intervention for new pneumonia caused by coronavirus infection".

And all parts of the country are actively deploying psychological crisis intervention under the epidemic situation into epidemic prevention and control.

If the first case was found in Hangzhou, the Hangzhou Municipal Health Protection Committee first integrated the psychological crisis intervention into the overall deployment of the epidemic prevention and control. It formulated a plan for the work of the epidemic prevention, and organized the preparation of the manual for coping with the psychological intervention of pneumonia in the new type of coronavirus in Hangzhou. 16 psychological crisis intervention experts in Hangzhou City, 13 districts, counties (cities) and 2 functional areas were fully involved in the battle, and all the hotlines were set up.

The mental health center of Hebei also invited psychological experts to conduct psychological counseling through video link with members of the anti epidemic medical team. It is understood that in the major public health emergencies, it is the first time to carry out remote psychological crisis intervention through the WeChat platform.

In January 28th, the Gansu Health Protection Committee formally launched the "online consultation and consultation platform for pneumonia of new type coronavirus infection in Gansu". It only had 3 days, the total number of visits reached 69784 passengers, and 1793 cases were completed online consultation and inquiry.