Daily life and emotional states of stress and anxiety in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2024.212823Keywords:
Activities of Daily Living, Mental Health, COVID-19, Health WorkersAbstract
Objective: to discuss the changes in the daily lives and emotional states of health professionals
during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Methodology: focus groups were held weekly and
synchronously for six weeks, lasting approximately 1.5 hours. The recordings were transcribed,
analyzed, and categorized using the interpretative narrative phenomenological method.
Results: the categories found were: changes in routine and daily life; precarious working
conditions; changes in emotional states; and individual strategies aimed at mental health care.
Conclusion: the pandemic has aggravated situations of psychological distress motivated by fear
of contamination, overload, and precarious working conditions, as well as tensions arising from
the Brazilian political scenario. The main strategies that professionals found to deal with this
situation were to carry out meaningful activities and to search virtually for a loved one to talk to
or carry out some activity adapted to the distance.
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