Os fatores associados ao adoecimento de profissionais de enfermagem na pandemia de covid-19 em um hospital universitário

Abstract

The objective of this research is to evaluate the clinical, sociodemographic and work factors associated with illness due to Covid-19 among nursing professionals who provide care in the context of the pandemic in a University Hospital in the interior of Minas Gerais. This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study, developed with nursing professionals, between August 2020 and January 2021, using a non-probabilistic sample, established by convenience. The research was initiated after approval by the Ethics Committee on Research with Human Beings. Nurses, technicians, and nursing assistants working in health care were included, and professionals not working in the front line, who partially answered the data collection form, who had already been vaccinated, or who were away from their care duties for any reason, were excluded. The Research Electronic Data Capture platform was used to prepare the script, collect and organize the data. The descriptive analysis of the variables was performed using absolute and relative frequency. For the hypothesis tests, the outcome was the occurrence of covid-19 in the participants. For this, we used the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. The analyses were performed using Stata software version 15.0, at a 95% confidence level (p < 0.05). The results found point to a rate of 30.4% of nursing professionals affected by covid-19. The variables gender, number of people in the same household affected by covid-19, group of risk and sector of work were associated with the disease in nursing professionals. In addition, a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) was reported and most clinical manifestations were mild. It is concluded that the variables gender, number of people in the same household affected by covid-19, group of risk and the sector of work were associated with the illness of these professionals, however, future research is recommended to investigate other factors associated with the disease.