Related Articles Psychological impact of COVID 19 on Chinese health care workers JMIR Ment Health 2020 Dec 14 Authors Ni J Liu Y Wu M Jiang Y Zhou Y Sha D Abstract BACKGROUND The outbreak of the 2019 nCoV had dominated headlines throughout the world The number of infections continued to rise which had reached 30 thousand at the time of writing this editorial Because of the high risk of nosocomial transmission the medical health care workers might be experiencing significant psychological stress OBJECTIVE This descriptive study aimed to identify hospital staff s psychosocial effects associated with working in a hospital environment during the 2019 nCoV outbreak METHODS 57 frontline clinicians working in Wuhan First Hospital and 157 medical training students working in Jiangsu Provincial Peoples Hospital during this outbreak participated in our survey The questionnaire we adopted included questions regarding the participants personal well being sociodemographic characteristics and the psychological status RESULTS 2019 nCoV had psychological impacts both on formal workers and medical students The psychological effects included sleep disorders anxiety and depression There was no significant difference between the group of formal workers and medical students and nearly 50 of the respondents reported pandemic related mental disorders CONCLUSIONS Our study indicated that the high risk of 2019 nCoV exposure caused huge psychological stress on healthcare workers This finding emphasized the need of promoting psychological crisis intervention for medical personnel during this epidemic disease outbreak CLINICALTRIAL This was a cross sectional study including 57 frontline clinicians working in Wuhan First Hospital and 157 medical students working in Jiangsu Provincial Peoples Hospital during the 2019 nCoV outbreak Firstly we released the online questionnaires among the Wuhan First Hospital first line staff and collected 57 valid questionnaires on March 4th 2020 Later we conducted a survey among young medical students to investigate their psychological change associated with 2019 nCoV and collected 157 valid data PMID 33341754 PubMed as supplied by publisher