Cotidiano e estados emocionais de estresse e ansiedade em trabalhadores da saúde durante a pandemia da Covid-19 em 2020

Objective: to discuss the changes in the daily lives and emotional states of health professionalsduring the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Methodology: focus groups were held weekly andsynchronously for six weeks, lasting approximately 1.5 hours. The recordings were transcribed,analyzed, and categorized using the interpretative narrative phenomenological method.Results: the categories found were: changes in routine and daily life; precarious workingconditions; changes in emotional states; and individual strategies aimed at mental health care.Conclusion: the pandemic has aggravated situations of psychological distress motivated by fearof contamination, overload, and precarious working conditions, as well as tensions arising fromthe Brazilian political scenario. The main strategies that professionals found to deal with thissituation were to carry out meaningful activities and to search virtually for a loved one to talk toor carry out some activity adapted to the distance

Disease · Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic · Medicine · Occupational Health and Burnout · Psychology · Internal Medicine