Experiences of psychic suffering in undergraduate of the Engineering course

• Autor(a) principal: Bezerra, João Ernesto Moura Sobreira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Jorge, Maria Salete Bessa, Fernandes, Carlos Estevão Rolim, Mendes, Layza Castelo Branco, Machado, Daniel Galeno, Aragão, Jordan Augusto Mota
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/26290
• topic: Salud mental; Servicios de salud para estudiantes; Tecnología.; Mental health; Student health services; Technology.; Saúde mental; Serviços de saúde para estudantes; Tecnologia.

Objective: To understand, based on narratives, the experiences of psychic suffering experienced by students at the Technology Center at the Federal University of Ceará. Method: This is a research with a qualitative approach and an exploratory and descriptive nature, carried out in eleven undergraduate courses in Engineering at the Technology Center of the Federal University of Ceará. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and a focus group was constituted. The narratives were organized in knots and analyzed based on Bardin's discourse analysis. Results: 4 categories were formed from the ten nodes considered in the discourse analysis: Category 1: “grades”, “failure” and “stress”; Category 2: “teaching” and “relationship with teacher”; Category 3: “mental health”, “dropout”, “support” and “external support”; and Category 4: “being an engineering student”. Conclusion: It is necessary to propose preventive interventions, identification and care for the psychological distress of these students, in order to promote mental health and quality of life for students.