Coping with covid-19 by physicians: An integrative review
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https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2022v12i75p10187-10196Keywords:
COVID-19, Physicians, Psychological AdaptationAbstract
Objective: to search the literature for what has already been published on the confrontation of COVID-19 by doctors. Method: this is an integrative literature review, carried out in the Virtual Health Library, a platform that allows simultaneous search in the main national and international literature databases. The research was carried out in January 2022, from the crossing of the descriptors "Doctors" and "Psychological adaptation" and "COVID-19", 12 articles were selected that met the inclusion criteria. Results: all articles were in English and indexed in Medline. Several negative factors were reported and strategies that helped these professionals face the pandemic were described. Conclusions: the repercussions of stressors (fear, worry, depression, anxiety and anguish) occurred in the mental, physical, spiritual and social spheres and to face COVID-19, strategies were used such as the use of social networks to relieve, psychological resources, the search for knowledge about the disease, faith, in addition to humor and a positive attitude towards events.
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