Repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and work of ICU nursing technicians

Vieira, Katia Maria Rosa; Vieira Junior, Francisco Ubaldo; Bittencourt, Zélia Zilda Lourenço de Camargo

doi:10.1590/1983-1447.2023.20230071.en

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Original Article • Rev. Gaúcha Enferm. 44 • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-1447.2023.20230071.en copy

Repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and work of ICU nursing technicians

Repercusión de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la vida y el trabajo de los técnicos de enfermería en UCI

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ABSTRACT

Objective:

To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal dimensions and its relationship with the work context of nursing technicians who worked in ICUs.

Method:

A cross-sectional mixed-method study (convergent parallel). A total of 229 nursing technicians from intensive care units participated and responded a questionnaire. The study was conducted using the IRaMuTeQ software for lexicographic verification and similarity analysis of the corpus and the Minitab 19 software for comparison between means and logistic regression.

Results:

Fear was found that the biggest impact on the lives of nursing technicians. The professionals experienced stress and anxiety as a consequence of the fear of Coronavirus infection and its transmission to their families.

Conclusion:

The pandemic affected the daily personal lives of nursing technicians, in the same work context, in different ways.

Descriptors:
Pandemics; COVID-19; Working conditions; Occupational health; Nursing

Variable	Words from the corpus
Variable	Family	Covid	Stress	Anxiety	p
Number of nursing technicians	65	32	44	36	-
Age	38.3±9.2	40.9±12.1	36.7±8.3	36.6±10.3	0.226
Gender (Female/Male)	50/15	28/4	36/8	35/1	<0.001
Married/stable union (Yes/No)	42/23	21/11	27/16	25/11	>0.05
Time of ICU	6.4±5.7	8.8±7.8	5.2±4.3	4.8±4.6	0.127
Time of Institution	7.6±6.6	9.9±8.8	7.1±5.5	6.4±4.6	0.538
Number of jobs	1.5±0.5	1.3±0.5	1.6±0.6	1.4±0.6	0.057
Number of training sessions	2.7±1.6	2.7±1.8	2.5±1.5	2.9±1.7	0.440
Leaves in 2020	29	21	29	18	0.080
Leaves in 2021	20	8	20	13	0.255
COVID Infections	0.74±0.69	1.13±0.71	0.84±0.61	0.86±0.59	0.078
Felt protected (No)	6	8	9	6	0.196
Had institutional support (No)	16	11	19	15	0.165
Mental illness (Yes)	7	5	8	12	0.043

Variable	Words from the corpus
Variable	Family	Covid	Stress	Anxiety
Age	0.010	0.126⁑	-0.079⁑	-0.073
Gender	-0.09	-0.106⁑	-0.058	-0.213†
Married	0.109⁑	0.007	-0.047	0.109⁑
Time of ICU	0.045	0.204†	-0.078	-0.092⁑
Time of Institution	-0.017	0.138*	-0.048	-0.090⁑
Number of jobs	0.021	-0.127⁑	0.096⁑	-0.108⁑
Number of training sessions	0.083	0.042	-0.013	0.104⁑
Leaves in 2020	-0.063	0.131*	0.183†	0.009
Leaves in 2021	-0.131*	-0.132*	0.058	-0.040
COVID Infections	-0.075	0.168*	0.008	0.022
Felt protected	0.200†	-0.025	0.014	0.056
Had institutional support	0.131*	0.001	-0.098⁑	-0.065
Mental illness	-0.100⁑	0.036	0.139*	0.234†
Physical capacity for work	0.268†	-0.159*	-0.137*	-0.053

Confidence Interval for OR 95%
Variable	Family		Covid		Stress		Anxiety
Variable	OR	Coef	OR	Coef	OR	Coef	OR	Coef
Age	-	-	0.98	-0.02	0.96	-0.04	-	-
Gender	-	-	0.40	-0.91	-	-	13.3	2.59*
Married/stable union	1.93	0.66	-	-	-	-	3.17	1.15†
Time of ICU	-	-	1.13	0.13	-	-	0.89	-0.12
Time of Institution	-	-	0.97	-0.03	-	-	1.03	0.03
Number of jobs	-	-	0.65	-0.43	1.57	0.45	0.52	-0.65
Number of training sessions	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.26	0.23
Leaves in 2020	-	-	2.40	-0.87	2.69	0.99*	-	-
Leaves in 2021	0.82	-0.20	0.22	-1.51†	-	-	-	-
COVID Infections	-	-	2.63	0.97†	-	-	-	-
Felt protected	2.68	0.99*	-	-	-	-	-	-
Had institutional support	1.33	0.29	-	-	0.65	-0.43	-	-
Mental illness	0.45	-0.81	-	-	1.80	0.59	3.67	1.30†
Physical capacity for work	1.81	0.59†	0.55	-0.59*	0.71	-0.35	-	-
ROC	0.723	0.808	0.711	0.803
Hosmer-Lemeshow	0.952	0.193	0.089	0.160

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[1] Corresponding author:
Katia Maria Rosa Vieira E-mail: katia_rosa@terra.com.br