Healthcare Worker Mental Health Survey Data from Fujian Province, China

Survey data from 1,335 healthcare workers in Fujian Province, China, collected using the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The dataset was created by Jinni Xu and last updated in June 2026 for a network analysis study examining symptom-level interrelationships between anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep disturbances.

Use Cases

• Conduct network analysis of psychological symptoms based on DASS-21 and PSQI item scores.
• Identify central and bridging symptoms in mental health comorbidity networks based on the described network structure.
• Examine subgroup differences in symptom networks based on education level, as mentioned in the results.
• Validate Gaussian graphical models with EBICglasso regularization for psychological data.

Strengths

• Includes data from 1,335 participants, providing a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Uses validated instruments (DASS-21 and PSQI) for measuring psychological constructs.
• Network accuracy and stability were assessed using bootstrap procedures, as described in the methods.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single-province (Fujian) sample.

Provenance

Source

Jinni Xu via figshare.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey administered to healthcare workers from medical institutions in Fujian Province, China.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:42:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Fujian Province, China.