Community therapy as a strategy for promoting the mental health of professors in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor: Sena ELDS; Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Departamento de Saúde. Jequié, Bahia, Brasil., Ribeiro DB; Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Programa de Residência Multiprofissional em Urgência. Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil., Peixoto LCP; Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Departamento de Saúde. Jequié, Bahia, Brasil., Santos VTCD; Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Departamento de Ciências da Saúde. Ilhéus, Bahia, Brasil., Reis HFT; Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Departamento de Saúde. Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil., Carvalho PAL; Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Departamento de Saúde. Jequié, Bahia, Brasil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista gaucha de enfermagem [Rev Gaucha Enferm] 2023 Oct 13; Vol. 44, pp. e20210133. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 13 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1590/1983-1447.2023.20210133.en
Abstrakt: Objective: To understand the perception of university professors about Integrative Community Therapy as a mental health promotion strategy.
Methods: Qualitative, phenomenological and interventional research, conducted with professors of the Nursing course at the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Jequié, Bahia, Brazil. The experiential descriptions were produced through phenomenological interviews, whose resulting material was analyzed based on the Ambiguity Analytical technique.
Results: The professors expressed a lack of interaction between them, a fact that has become a reality in everyday academic life and that has worsened in the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the Community Therapy circles in a virtual environment proved to be effective in sharing psychosocial and physical demands, as well as in the collective discussion of problem situations and the search for joint solutions.
Conclusion: The study highlights the potential of Community Therapy as an integrative and complementary practice to the Brazilian public health care model.
Databáze: MEDLINE