Memórias de vozes da pandemia de Covid-19: um estudo sobre a experiência de uma internação hospitalar

Abstract

Covid-19 presented a number of human health issues. Given the lethality of the cases and the damage to well-being, hospitalization was seen as a care alternative to these consequences. However, this hospitalization differs from others that existed before this context, because, in face of the rapid and easy contagion of the virus, several care and modifications were made in these spaces. In this way, based on a different experience and through a virus that caused a pandemic, the Covid-19 hospitalization presents unique visions and challenges not seen before. It is in this perspective that the construction of this dissertation is established. The present study aims to analyze the experiences of people who were hospitalized in the Covid-19 hospital sector. As specific objectives were listed: to identify which representations of hospitalization by people hospitalized by Covid-19; to describe which coping strategies to Covid-19 hospitalization were used by patients; and, finally, to characterize which changes the people participating in the research identify in their daily lives as a consequence of hospitalization. This is, therefore, a qualitative, descriptive, field research. Ten subjects of various ages and genders, residents of the city of Teresina/PI and with at least fifteen days of hospitalization participated in the study. The study used two instruments for data production: a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The data were organized and analyzed using the clinical-qualitative method. The results pointed to the presence of several fears, worries, and feelings of hopelessness during the days of hospitalization. The fear of death was also one of the elements most cited by the participants, using religion as the greatest method of comfort and reestablishment of healing. Moreover, the experience was considered a catalyst for change, seeing discharge as a second chance to live life. It is concluded the need for support and assistance to individuals not only the period of facing Covid-19, understanding that there are sequels that go beyond the physical body.