Health professionals on the edge of a psychic collapse

Burnout's Syndrome in times of Covid 19

Abstract

The study seeks to analyze the feelings experimented by the health professionals, that is, the experiences of the medics, nurses, technical and other caregivers during the SARS-COV-2 pandemic period, as well as estabilishing a relation between the effects of pandemic and the Burnout Syndrome. It is a review about the literature of the Burnout Syndrome, especially, in Health Professionals, as like  analysis of reports of professionals that are in frontline in that combat, published at online journals like: Folha de São Paulo, G1 News, Estado de Minas, El País, among others. In order to better understand the new SARS-COV-2, was resorted the Ministry of Health website home page, of FioCruz and the World Health Organization. It is inferred that the health team, in times of a pandemic, also needs care to preserve the psychological health of its members. As a human being like others and caregivers, how can they take care of the health of others if their own is compromised? How have they dealt with de SARS-COV-2 epidemic in the face of a lack of human resources and inadequate working conditions? Considering the data analysis, it becomes evident that the precariousness work of the public health team in Brazil in coping  coping with the pandemic can affect psychological health and, consequently, cause the Burnout Syndrome in some professionals.