Moral suffering in health professionals: portrait of the work environment in times of COVID-19.

Autor: Caram CDS; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Ramos FRS; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil., Almeida NG; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil., Brito MJM; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2021 Mar 05; Vol. 74Suppl 1 (Suppl 1), pp. e20200653. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 05 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0653
Abstrakt: Objective: To analyze potential triggers of moral suffering experiences of health professionals, reported in the media, during the COVID-19 pandemic and to propose a theoretical construct of analysis.
Methods: Study with qualitative approach whose data source were 50 reports published online, collected passively and actively, submitted to Content Analysis with the help of ATLAS.ti software.
Results: The potential moral problems that trigger moral suffering are related to the threat to moral integrity, infrastructure/logistics and teamwork problems, and emotional aspects, revealing their articulation with damage to the foundations of a healthy work environment, which generated the proposal of a construct.
Final Considerations: The articulation between the experiences of moral suffering and the commitment of the fundamentals of a healthy work environment has brought important contributions to the adoption of strategies to protect and stimulate moral deliberation by professionals in favor of practice and society.
Databáze: MEDLINE