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Desafios do enfrentamento a pandemia covid-19

Abstract

This study analyzes the challenges faced by healthcare professionals during the covid-19 pandemic, in Vale do Paraíba Paulista, in the interior of São Paulo. The research participants were health professionals from different specialties who had (prior to the covid-19 pandemic) three or more years of practice in the hospital context, working directly in combating the covid-19 pandemic in the period from January to December 2020. Fifteen health professionals from different specialties were interviewed, including two nursing assistants, three nursing technicians, two nurses, three physiotherapists, two psychologists and three doctors. Participants were selected using the chain recruitment snowball technique. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect information. Data analysis was carried out based on the methodological proposal of analyzing the meaning cores, using as a reference the assumptions of historical social psychology. The results point to the challenges of combating the pandemic such as the techniques and strategies used to contain the disease, lack of equipment, lack of human resources, exhaustive cleaning and hygiene routine, long working hours, death, denialist behavior of the population, the role of the media during the pandemic, the national policy to combat the virus and the president's behavior. This study points to data that provides support for the health care of these professionals, in addition to publicizing the experience of combating the covid-19 virus and demonstrates the need for recognition of this category.