O sentido da vida e a saúde mental dos trabalhadores de saúde no contexto da pandemia Covid 19: um olhar a partir da logoterapia

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze possible relationships between mental health and meaning of life for front -line health workers in the context of Covid 19 pandemic. Areas that work in front line in the context of the Covid pandemic 19. The 5 professionals participating in the research are health workers in a health unit of a municipality of Serra Gaucha. From the answers, the content analysis was performed from Laville & Dionne (1999), an exploratory reading of the interview content and compared data extracted from the contents of each meeting and later paired with theoretical assumptions of logotherapy. Content analysis was performed from the answers collected in the interviews, then created four categories: 1) Routine changes in the pandemic, 2) feelings and emotions in the pandemic, 3) Mental Health resources and 4) meaning of life, Which were discussed with the theoretical approach to logotherapy, through living values, creation values and attitude values. The participants' answers pointed out that the experience of these values were fundamental to pass through the pandemic period. Faced with routine changes and feelings that involved these changes and the confrontation of the virus, workers had to quickly seek adaptation and deal with the uncertainties of the future. Fear of losing family members, being a vector to others, ignorance about the virus, was feelings that demanded that workers seek other resources to maintain mental health, which involved virtual social relations, contact with nature, animals, spirituality , therapeutic practices (yoga, psychotherapy), as well as support with co -workers. Contact with a situation that cannot be changed, such as the advance of a virus, without vaccine, visualizing daily deaths, brought important reflections on the meaning of life, reflections on values and the future. In the category of life, the workers refer to Change in perception as the sense of life, from the experiences brought by the pandemic. They bring in their reports the experience of values of creation, experience and attitude in this period. They refer to believing in a change in society after pandemic, new learning and feelings such as love, affection, empathy. In addition, reflections on finitude and suffering came from the results given the scenario with a large number of deat s, mourning due to the losses of dear people, changes of routine and uncertainty about the future. Keywords: Covid 19 pandemic, mental health, health workers, Logotherapy. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]