Objective:
to analyze how Nursing workers in COVID-19 hospital units perceive the physical and psychological repercussions of work on their health, as well as to identify the factors associated with their perceptions.
Method:
a parallel-convergent mixedmethods study conducted with 359 Nursing workers from COVID-19 units in seven hospitals. For the collection of quantitative data, a questionnaire containing sociodemographic and labor variables and related to perceptions of physical and psychological repercussions were used, and for qualitative data, semi-structured interviews were used. For the analysis, inferential statistics and thematic content analysis were used.
Results:
daytime workers, who had more than one employment contract and worked more than 41 hours/week perceived more moderate/intense physical repercussions, reporting overload and time off deficits. Nurses and CLT workers perceived psychological repercussions more moderately/intensely, mentioning managerial overload and job dissatisfaction. Women were 97% more likely to perceive physical repercussions and three times more likely to perceive psychological repercussions when compared to men, reporting household and family overloads.
Conclusion:
work and family overloads, intensified by the pandemic context, were associated with the intensity with which Nursing workers perceived physical and psychological repercussions.
Descriptors:
Nursing; Occupational Health; COVID-19; Mental Health; Pandemics; Hospital Units
Highlights
(1) Approximately half of the workers noticed physical repercussions and, most of them, psychological repercussions.
(2) Women were 97% more likely to perceive physical repercussions.
(3) Women presented three times more chance of perceiving psychological repercussions.
(4) Overload and physical repercussions were perceived in the day shift and with higher hour loads.
(5) Nurses and CLT workers perceived psychological repercussions and professional devaluation.
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