Repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and work of ICU nursing technicians

Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2023 Nov 24:44:e20230071. doi: 10.1590/1983-1447.2023.20230071.en. eCollection 2023.
[Article in English, Portuguese]

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.

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety / epidemiology
  • COVID-19* / epidemiology
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Pandemics