Psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade , Adna Gorette Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Alaiane Paola Almeida, Amaral , Joice Kelaine Silva, Amaral, Umbelina Joane Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v10i16.23455
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/23455
• topic: COVID-19; Psychological distress; Pandemic; Health professionals.; COVID-19; Distrés psicológico; Pandemia; Profesionales de la salud.; COVID-19; Angústia psicológica; Pandemia; Profissionais de saúde.

Objective: To verify the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on health professionals. Methodology: This is an exploratory, descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The study was carried out in a private higher education institution, located in the city of Vitoria da Conquista, Southwest of Bahia. The instruments used for data collection were a sociodemographic questionnaire developed by the study researchers, DASS-21 (Depression Anxiety Stress) questionnaire developed by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995), and finally the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire was applied. (PSQI) developed by Buysse. Results: Twelve health professionals participated in this research, among the data collected from the participants, regarding the level of Anxiety, Depression and Stress, 83.3% of respondents had the index within normality, the PSQI, based on the scores found in the sample, 58.3% of respondents had poor sleep quality. Conclusion: it is concluded that the levels of anxiety, depression and stress among health professionals were considered predominantly normal and the frequency of poor sleep quality in this study was high.