Hospital psychology interventions during a COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: an integrative literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, José Victor dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Teixeira, Ana Carolina Menezes, Lins, Ana Carolina de Araújo de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/20288
• topic: COVID-19; Psicologia hospitalar; Intervenções.; COVID-19; Psicología hospitalaria; Intervenciones.; COVID-19; Hospital psychology; Interventions.

The COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019 in China. Since then, it has spread to several countries. In this pandemic scenario, the role of psychology professionals has been essential during treatment. This study aimed to verify the interventions in hospital psychology during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. In order to achieve the outlined objectives, this study is defined as an Integrative Literature Review (RIL). Data collection took place from February to April 2021, in Google academic databases, BVSPSI (Virtual Psychology Library), PePSIC (Electronic Journals in Psychology), LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences ) and Capes Periodicals. The descriptors and Boolean operators were: hospital psychology AND interventions AND COVID-19 AND Brazil; psychology AND hospital AND COVID-19 AND Brazil. Thus, 22 studies were collected. After critical reading of the titles and abstracts of the studies, 8 articles were selected and read in full. After this process, all were used in the final sample of this research. The results demonstrate that the interventions were aimed at patients and their families as well as health professionals. The main interventions were: psychological care by telephone and in person, recreational activities, as well as psychoeducational activities. The objectives of this study were achieved. However, with a limitation related to the absence of productions on this theme, and the few published studies are of the experience report type. In this sense, it is considered relevant to carry out further studies.