A atuação do terapeuta ocupacional frente à saúde mental da população durante a pandemia de Covid-19: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the role of the Occupational Therapist in front of a population in a situation of psychic suffering in a period of COVID-19 pandemic, thus addressing the importance of the Occupational Therapist's performance in this context and showing how mental health impacts on the people's lives and has aggravations brought about by social isolation. The study was carried out through a classic literature review of an exploratory nature between the years 2020 and 2022 in specific Occupational Therapy journals in force in those years. To make this happen the descriptors mental health, pandemic, psychological distress and COVID-19 were used in the searches on databases. Four articles were selected to be read in full due to the scarce publication of papers on the research theme. The results found show that there is a growing publication on the subject of COVID-19 in Brazil, however, there is a need to continue research on this subject that involves the work of Occupational Therapy and the mental health care processes of the population in relation to the pandemic.