Sinais e sintomas de depressão e ansiedade na equipe de enfermagem: efeitos da pandemia na saúde mental de profissionais da saúde?

Abstract

Introduction: In Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic generated an increasing demand for nursing professionals, overloading services and escalating the necessity to care about these workers mental health. Goal: Follow up on the pandemic effects on the nursing staff's state of mind, focusing on depressive and anxiety signs on this post pandemic period on a teaching hospital. Methodology: A descriptive study of qualitative approach, using a questionare to identify these previously mentioned signs. Results: During the pandemic, the professionals reported symptoms as muscle tension, self depreciation, exhaustion and depressed humor. From those, 3 are indicatives of anxiety and depression symptoms. While comparing the pandemic and post pandemic period it was perceived an improvement on the physcological wellbeing, with reduction on the negative symptoms. However, fatigue and muscular tension persisted, indicating remaining signs of anxiety and depression. Conclusion: The nursing professional area by all means brings potencial risk to mental health and crises periods, just like the pandemic, expanding risks, increasing vulnerability and causing more illness.