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.
Descriptors:
Pandemics; COVID-19; Working conditions; Occupational health; Nursing