Saúde e adoecimento mental no serviço público hospitalar

Abstract

The number of people affected by some mental disorder is increasing in the first decades of the 21st century. And with the COVID-19 pandemic, announced in March 2020, this situation gets worse. And, considering that work is seen as a source of illness, and that health professionals are on the front line of facing the pandemic; considering also the overcrowding of health services, we seeked to investigate, by the present work, which are the mental health problems faced by public servants in the hospital area. The focus of the research is the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará Foundation, a public hospital that is a reference in maternal and child care, with availability of neonatal, pediatric and adult ICU beds. The general objective of the study is to analyze the issues that involve the health-disease process of these health professionals. To this end, the following specific objectives were defined: i) Identify the types of mental or behavioral disorders presented by the servers, in the period 2018/2021, in order to compare the two previous years with the two pandemic years; ii) check which preventive measures/actions in mental health the Foundation has adopted; iii) propose a mental health prevention guide, in electronic format, to be made available to civil servants. In the methodological course, the research method used is the Dialectic, with a quali-quanti approach and the techniques of direct and indirect documentation research.