Abstract
To analyze Brazilian and international scientific publications about the stress experienced by health professionals in the hospital context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Integrative literature review carried out on the SciELO, ScienceDirect, and LILACS databases, and sources of official Brazilian institutions, with documents published by May 2020. Of the 26 selected references, 19 (73.08%) were indexed articles, and 7 (26.92 %) were obtained from official institutions. The study found that stress is mainly due to the overload of hospital services, the removal of professionals, the insufficiency of personal protective equipment and strict biosecurity measures, challenges in the allocation of available resources, and the risk of contamination by COVID-19. The stress experienced by health professionals in hospital institutions during the pandemic can trigger occupational and psychological problems.
Highlights
METHODSAt the end of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) received alerts of a series of cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China
It was the initial milestone of an outbreak originated by a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), causing the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), which has since spread with increasing numbers of cases in other regions of the world
With the alarming advance of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is already possible to identify and discuss, relying on the scientific evidence gathered in the review, that, the course and impact of COVID-19 are uncertain, the illness of frontline health professionals is worrying, as it reduces human resources and compromise the quality and resoluteness of health services, causing hospital systems to already show signs of collapse
Summary
At the end of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) received alerts of a series of cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China. It was the initial milestone of an outbreak originated by a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), causing the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), which has since spread with increasing numbers of cases in other regions of the world. As of July 08, 2020, more than 1,577,004 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Brazil Of this total, more than 64,265 were killed, with a mortality rate of 30.6 deaths/100 thousand inhabitants[4]. The COVID-19 pandemic brings an additional and notably new challenge to the hospital system and, to health professionals. The scenario is alarming, atypical and uncertain, little understood, and advances rapidly, which justifies the realization of studies aimed at presenting and gathering scientific evidence, so far little explored, that incite reflections and understanding about the mental health of health professionals in time of facing the pandemic
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