Sintomas depressivos e ideação suicida em enfermeiros e médicos da assistência hospitalar

Abstract

RESUMO: Objetivo: investigar a presença de sintomas depressivos e ideação suicida entre enfermeiros e médicos da assistência hospitalar. Métodos: trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, com abordagem quantitativa, que contou com 100 sujeitos-50 enfermeiros e 50 médicos, atuantes no contexto hospitalar no município de João Pessoa-PB, Brasil. Foram utilizados o Inventário de Depressão de Beck, a Escala de Ideação Suicida de Beck e um questionário sociodemográfico, com análise quantitativa. Resultados: mediante a análise dos dados, verificou-se que 30% da amostra apresentou sintomatologia depressiva-20% enfermeiros e 10% médicos. A presença da ideação suicida foi verificada em 4% da amostra. Constatou-se, ainda, que todos eles também apresentaram depressão, o que evidencia uma forte relação entre os dois fenômenos. Conclusão: a prevalência de sintomas depressivos e a ideação suicida entre os profissionais de saúde apresentaram-se elevadas. Eles atuam contrariamente ao que se espera dessa população, tendo em vista sua atuação profissional.

Predictors of depressive symptoms among nurses of intensive care unit

“…1,2 Due to exhaustive and tense work, these professionals are more likely to develop occupational stress, which is an important determinant of depression and of other psychic diseases. 2 Depression is defined as a state of psychic suffering, which has consequences on interpersonal relationships.…”

“…[3][4][5][6] Affected individuals, family members, friends, and the community experience intense suffering. 7 This disease, 1 is considered a public health problem. 7 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that depression accounts for 4.3% of the global burden of disease and is among the world's leading causes of disability, 7 particularly of women.…”

“…Depression is one of the three most prevalent psychic illnesses in these workers, who daily deal with human suffering, pain, Joy, sadness and need to offer help to those who require their care. 1,5,6 Understanding depression among nurses who work in intensive care unit, as well as the risk factors involved, is important for researchers working primarily in the area of worker health. 6 The literature shows the sickness of these professionals.…”

“…In the first ten years and at the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century, researchers expanded their investigations in an attempt to understand the existence of an association between depressive symptomatology and its possible predictive factors, in an attempt to elucidate the relationships between these variables. 1,[4][5][6] Most of the research published in this period on depressive symptomatology related to nursing was carried out involving all professional categories of this team (nursing auxiliaries, nursing assistants and nurses). However, it is important to investigate each professional category since the attributions are different between them and there may be differences in the presence of depressive symptomatology and in the relationships between variables according to category.…”

“…This study only addresses nursing assistants in intensive care units. 1,[4][5][6] The guiding question of this study was to analyze if in an intensive care unit work environment there are factors that can be considered predictors of depressive symptomatology in nurses. In addition to these characteristics, the study sought to identify the prevalence of depressive symptomatology in these individuals.…”