Estresse e qualidade de vida dos profissionais enfermeiros frente a pandemia : revisão integrativa

Abstract

Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic was declared on March 11 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Due to the high contagiousness of the disease, changes in the workplace, in the team, emotional burden, physical exhaustion, among others, stress factors, psychological and physical suffering were identified in these professionals, directly influencing their quality of life. Based on the above considerations, the research aimed to: Identify the main stress factors generated by nursing care on the front line of the fight against Covid-19 and its impact on quality of life. Methodology: This is an integrative review carried out between February and July 2022, where the descriptors in health sciences were crossed and the Boolean operator AND was used to obtain the articles available in the following databases LILACS, SciELO, PubMed and BDENF. The inclusion criteria were: primary articles, from experimental studies, published in Portuguese, English and Spanish, available in full online and referring to the proposed theme, published from 2017 to April 2022. Exclusion criteria were: theses, dissertations, editorials, review articles, manuals, protocols, book chapters, reflections, opinions and expert comments, as well as duplicate publications in the databases that did not answer the guiding question of the study. Results: 288 articles were obtained, which after evaluation resulted in a selection of 11 articles. Discussion: Many professionals were affected by several stress factors such as lack of adequate equipment, physical exhaustion due to prolonged shifts, lack of human resources, impaired sleep as well as feelings of fear of contagion and death, anguish and insecurity due to inexperience to deal with the pandemic, which contributed to the psychological and physical suffering of these professionals, resulting in anxiety, depression and high levels of Burnout. Conclusion: The pandemic brought notoriety to nursing, but it also aggravated the problems faced before, so it is necessary to develop institutional strategies and programs that contribute to better working conditions, aiming to meet the basic needs of professionals and provide them with a better quality of life.