Repercussões na saúde mental de discentes de Graduação e Pós-graduação no contexto da pandemia

• Autor(a) principal: Cezário, Paula Frassinetti Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/24767
• topic: Saúde mental; Estudantes; COVID-19; Mental health; Students; Salud mental; Estudiantes; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

Introduction: In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was decreed, caused by the SARS COV-2 virus, with high transmissibility and diversity in causing mild to severe clinical manifestations, in addition to economic, social, cultural and emotional damage. Such circumstances can affect the mental health of students, thus favoring illness. Objective: To analyze the repercussions of restrictive measures during the remote period for the mental health of undergraduate and graduate students, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Methodological Path: Descriptive research, with a quantitative approach and secondary basis. The snowball technique was used, from the sending of the instrument elaborated in Google Forms, via email and through the social network Whatsapp, to the student representatives of the undergraduate and graduate nursing classes at the Federal University of Paraíba. , in the period 04/28/2020 to 08/05/2020. The sample consisted of 206 nursing students after using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were processed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science software, version 26.0 and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The ethical precepts established in Resolution 466/2012 and 510/2016 of the National Health Council were respected. Results: It was found that the students showed significant changes in their routines, of which 65 (31.6%) performed physical activity at times; 72 (35.0%) were eating more food than usual; 65 (31.6%) had a regular sleep pattern. In the aspects of life, about those who pointed out the interference of social distancing, 74 (50.7%) reported in the physical area; 129 (88.4%) in the emotional context; and 99 (67.8%) in the social area; also the self-assessment of mental status was in the bad category. Regarding the feelings arising from social restriction, for 46 (31.5%), staying at home was stressful and distressing. Conclusions: The students showed changes in the physical, social and emotional areas resulting from the period of social isolation. It is recommended that managers, teachers and the like reflect and make possible individual and collective strategies, in order to improve the mental health of students.