Impact of COVID-19 in nursing professionals: systematic review and meta-analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Souza,Tamires Patrícia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Rossetto,Maíra, Almeida,Carlos Podalirio Borges de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Trabalho, Educação e Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-77462022000100506
• topic: COVID-19; coronavirus; healthcare workers; mental health

Abstract Nursing work is in increasing demand, becoming strenuous especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the objective of the study was to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of nursing professionals through a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis, including studies published in 2020 in Web of Science, PubMed and SciELO. Regarding the systematic review, we included 25 studies with a cross-sectional design, from 12 countries. The participants were mostly nurses or nursing teams. Mental impacts such as anxiety, depression, discouragement and a feeling of obligation to work were frequently reported by study participants. The meta-analyses included psychological distress variables, and no association was found between psychological distress and being a frontline healthcare professional (OR 0.94; 95% CI 0.33-2.67). The mental health of nursing professionals has been negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The main symptoms presented were anxiety, depression and discouragement, and many nurses felt obliged to work on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic; although they suffer emotional impacts and work overload in health services.