Social representations of COVID-19 by the nursing team of an intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 was a new psychosocial phenomenon that affected the work context of healthcare professionals, particularly intensive care nursing teams, impacting their ways of being and relating.

Aim

The aim of this study was to analyze the structure and process of the production of social representations of nursing professionals who worked in intensive care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method

Qualitative research, based on the theory of social representations. The first stage was carried out from March to June 2023 with 103 nursing professionals who provided direct care to critically ill patients with COVID-19, using the Free Word Association Technique with the inductive term COVID-19. The data underwent prototypical and simility analysis using IRaMu

SUBMITTER: da Silva RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12210934 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature