Mental health workers' life experience during the coronavirus pandemic
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Mental Health, Health Personnel, Mental Health Services, COVID-19, PandemicsAbstract
Objective: to know mental health workers' life experience during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Method: an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study that resorted to narratives and was conducted in four mental health services of a municipality from the inland of São Paulo. The data were collected by means of an online form and the analysis was performed following Dialectic Hermeneutics. Results: the participants were 108 health workers, with predominance of the female gender, white-skinned individuals, age between 38 and 47 years old, in stable relationships or married, and with complete higher education. Two thematic categories emerged from the narratives, namely: Adaptations to the new personal routines and Adaptations to the new routine at work. Conclusion: mental health workers experience impacts that generate multiple anxieties. Organizational strategies that provide moments of listening and offer safety and adequate working conditions are favorable for the moment faced and need to be discussed in the services in question.
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