Configurações do trabalho de personal trainers de Goiânia- GO no contexto da pandemia de covid-19 e suas relações com a saúde mental

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Estelia Auxiliadora de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12930
• topic: Saúde do trabalhador; Saúde mental; Personal trainer; Covid-19; Worker's health; Mental health; Personal trainer; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::ENSINO-APRENDIZAGEM

Since 2020, the world has been facing the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought numerous changes to the world's population. Some of these changes involved people's mental health, including several professionals. The general objective of this dissertation was to analyze the mental health of personal trainers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the specific objectives: to understand how personal trainers perceived their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic; understand how the personals dealt with their mental health demands and; to analyze the relationships between mental health and the work of a personal trainer. A qualitative research was carried out, which interviewed 10 Physical Education professionals who acted as personal trainers in the most critical period of the pandemic, in 2020 and 2021. The interviews were semi-structured and the data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. From the standpoint of Collective Health, discussions on mental health took into account the work configurations of personal trainers, and the results showed aspects such as professional and financial instability, lack of labor rights (vacation, Christmas bonus, unemployment insurance, leave, prior notice, retirement, etc.), high working hours, own cost of materials, uniforms and travel, requirement to also work in accounting, secretary, attracting clients, producing content on social networks, etc. The routine was differentiated between men and women, and the personal ones included taking care of the home and family. The main change in work settings during the pandemic was the shift from face-to-face classes to online classes. The moment was marked by financial impact and deepening instability, elements associated with symptoms and suffering mentioned by the interviewees. There were reports of anxiety, stress, sleeping difficulties, fear, suffering, low self-esteem, among others. The personals looked for individual ways to deal with this exhaustion, such as psychologists and psychiatrists, other types of therapies, body practices, groups of friends and spirituality. On the other hand, they did not identify significant collective measures for the professional category in the pandemic, such as support, protection and policies promoted by the professional council or other entities and by the Brazilian government. Although positive aspects of being a personal trainer were also mentioned, which give it status and appreciation in the field of Physical Education, the research data showed contradictions in the context in which the pandemic brought more evidence to the precariousness of working conditions and the lack of safety labor, with marked gender differences, and an increase in suffering related to mental health.