Introduction: The COVID19 pandemic began in the year 2020, ravaging
countries and killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In this scenario,
much was required of health professionals. In the midst of so many uncertainties
regarding the prognosis of infections, the lack of perspective of improvement in
the course of the world scenario, health professionals were forced to face this
unknown agent, plunging into exhausting work routines, many of which they
offered precarious working conditions, in addition to increasingly long working
hours due to the excessive increase in demand from patients in conditions that
required some hospital care. In this context, it was noted the need to investigate
the mental health condition of professionals who were inserted in hospitals in
BelémPA. Objective: To analyze the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on the
mental health of health professionals who work on duty in emergency care.
Methodology: Crosssectional study, developed from the elaboration of a
questionnaire submitted to participants via Google Forms, in which it contained
questions that made up three different assessment scales already validated in
the national literature: one for anxiety, another for insomnia and a third to assess
stress of the interviewee. The data obtained were collected and analyzed using
the chisquare test. Results: The research had the collaboration of 43 health
professionals who were on the front lines of the fight against the new coronavirus
pandemic, working in the city of BelémPA. There was a higher prevalence of
females, who represented 65.1% of the total number of respondents. In addition,
a higher prevalence of participants under 30 years of age (53.5%) was noticed,
as well as a majority had a working day on the front line greater than 36 hours
per week. Another point identified in the data obtained was the absence of any
comorbidities in most respondents (60.5%). Furthermore, it was reported that
more than half of the respondents (72.1%) had some degree of difficulty sleeping
properly. Added to this, a scatter plot was designed that revealed an R= 37.98%,
allowing the conclusion that there is an association between fatigue and
insomnia. Finally, based on data collected from the responses to the Generalized
Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD7) questionnaire, it was found that 77.3% of those
surveyed had some degree of anxiety during the period studied. Conclusion: In
view of the data collected and the results obtained, it was possible to conclude
that the COVID19 pandemic affected the mental health of health professionals.
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