Themes | Subthemes | Frequency n (%)a |
---|---|---|
Seeking practical help | Ask questions about the epidemic itself | 198 (12.7) |
Ask how to protect themselves from being infected | 156 (10.0) | |
Ask whether their symptoms stood for infection | 101 (6.5) | |
Ask whether they had developed mental disorders | 87 (5.6) | |
Ask information about hospitals and medical care | 74 (4.7) | |
Ask the new policy under the epidemic | 45 (2.9) | |
How to educate their kids | 24 (1.5) | |
Total Seeking practical help | 685 (44.0) | |
Needing support around their emotion | The epidemic has made them upset | 314 (20.2) |
Uncomfortable when knowing the latest information of COVID-19 | 197 (12.6) | |
Worried about their life condition including work, study | 134 (8.6) | |
Worried about their family members’ health | 96 (6.2) | |
Scared of being isolated | 67 (4.3) | |
Angry about someone without protective measures | 65 (4.2) | |
Worried about the recurrence of their psychiatric disease | 47 (3.0) | |
Angry about the shortage of protective material | 43 (2.8) | |
Problems of interpersonal relationship, including friends, lovers, family members, colleagues | 35 (2.2) | |
Missing of their dead loved ones | 9 (0.6) | |
Total Needing support around their emotion | 1007 (64.6) | |
Sleep problems | Life routines were disrupted | 119 (7.6) |
Changed emotion made them hard to sleep | 105 (6.7) | |
Specific events made them hard to sleep | 67 (4.3) | |
Relapse of pre-existing mental illness | 26 (1.7) | |
Total Sleep problems | 317 (20.3) | |
Consulting with others’ issues instead of themselves | – | 11 (0.7) |