Katia Maria Rosa Vieira, Francisco Ubaldo Vieira Junior, Zélia Zilda Lourenço de Camargo Bittencourt
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Abstract
Objective: To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal dimensions and its relationship with the work context of nursing technicians who worked in ICUs.
Method: A cross-sectional mixed-method study (convergent parallel). A total of 229 nursing technicians from intensive care units participated and responded a questionnaire. The study was conducted using the IRaMuTeQ software for lexicographic verification and similarity analysis of the corpus and the Minitab 19 software for comparison between means and logistic regression.
Results: Fear was found that the biggest impact on the lives of nursing technicians. The professionals experienced stress and anxiety as a consequence of the fear of Coronavirus infection and its transmission to their families.
Conclusion: The pandemic affected the daily personal lives of nursing technicians, in the same work context, in different ways.
期刊介绍:
A Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul edita e publica a Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem para divulgar a produção científica da Enfermagem e áreas afins. Foi criada em 1976 e atualmente tem periodicidade trimestral.