Repercussions for mental health of nursing professionals who are in the face of The Covid-19: integrative review

Abstract

Objective: To identify the repercussions on mental health of nursing professionals who are in the face of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic context. Method: integrative literature review conducted in May 2021 in the electronic databases SCOPUS, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Science and Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS). Results: 1,249 publications were found whose application of inclusion, exclusion and critical reading criteria culminated in the analysis of 18 articles from experiences from China, Turkey, Italy, Canada, United States, Philippines, Brazil, Portugal and Ethiopia. The main repercussions involved in mental illness were anxiety, depression, stress, Burnout syndrome, mental sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder. Conclusion: The mental health of nurses is extremely fragile in the face of the pandemic context. This emergency in world health eventually triggered physical, emotional and psychological consequences in these workers.

Keywords

• saúde do trabalhador
• saúde mental
• pessoal de saúde
• infecções por coronavírus
• pandemias