Impactos da Covid-19 na saúde física e mental dos profissionais da saúde: revisão de literatura

Abstract

This article aims to identify the productions that have already been carried out on the concepts of physical and mental health caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in health professionals. The research is characterized as qualitative. In this sense, to achieve the proposed objective, a data collection was structured with specific procedures of literature review, with mechanisms of explicit investigations, through analysis of the evidence found in the studies. It is noticed that the studies carried out in the research focus on the physical and mental well-being of health professionals, as well as stress factors, anxiety, work overload, Burnout syndrome, as they directly interfere in the health of these workers. It is concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered very stressful moments in the general population, especially for health professionals working on the front line, as they were more vulnerable and susceptible to the virus. For this, it is necessary that the government has a careful look in order to restructure health services to mitigate psychological suffering and the multiple challenges that were faced in the mental health sphere by health professionals.