Investigation and analysis of mental stress among service workers in public places in Guizhou Province during the COVID-19 pandemic
Objective:To understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental stress among service workers in public places in Guizhou Province,and to provide evidence and references for mental health education of service workers in public places while when it comes to emergency public health incidents.Methods:According to different economic levers using an important in-dicator of gross domestic product(GDP)to measure the national economy,five kinds of public places were selected in five differ-ent districts and five different counties,It was tested by the impact of event scale-revised(IES-R).The results were evaluated with scores of the impact of event scale-revised.Conclusion:It had some impact on the mental stress among service workers in public places in Guizhou Province from the COVID-19 pandemic or epidemic situation.It was noteworthy that the stress re-sponse of service workers from barbershops was most serious in our study.