medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.23.20026872; this version posted March 7, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Tittle：Mental health status and coping strategy of medical workers in China during The COVID-19 outbreak Authors: Siyu Chen1, Min Xia3, Weiping Wen1, Liqian Cui4, Weiqiang Yang5, Shaokun Liu2, Jiahua Fan3, Huijun Yue1, Shangqing Tang2, Bingjie Tang1，Li Xiaoling6，Lin Chen1, Zili Qin1, Kexing Lv1, Xueqin Guo1, Yu Lin1, Yihui Wen1, Wenxiang Gao1, Ying Zheng1, Wei Xu1, Yun Li1, Yang Xu 1，Li Ling2, Wenbin Lei1 1Otorhinolaryngology Hospital, Institute of otolaryngology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 3School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. 4The Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 5Department of Otolaryngology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen,China. 6Community Health Service Management Center, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Siyu Chen, Min Xia, Weiping Wen and Liqian Cui contributed equally to this article. Correspondence to : Wenbin Lei: [email protected] and Li Ling: [email protected] the disclaimer text The authors have withdrawn their manuscript whilst they perform additional experiments to test some of their conclusions further. Therefore, the authors do not wish this work to be cited as reference for the project. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author. NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.23.20026872; this version posted March 7, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . .