ABSTRACT
Objective:
to know the feelings and coping strategies used by the multi-professional team in relation to cases of legal interruption of pregnancy.
Method:
a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, conducted with 21 professionals in a hospital in the Southern Region of Brazil in September and October 2018. The participants were selected by the snowball technique and answered semi-structured individual interviews. The data were analyzed according to Minayo's operative proposal.
Results:
two thematic categories were unveiled: feelings related to participation in the process of legal interruption of pregnancy and ways of coping and support service of the institution. The participants revealed feelings ranging from indifference to empathy, and that their main ways of coping are the search for specialized services, conversation groups, family and religion.
Conclusion:
it was observed that the cases assisted give rise to diverse feelings in the professionals and, according to reports, they do not receive any form of support from the institution to deal with them.
DESCRIPTORS
Health staff; Legal abortion; Feelings; Psychological adaptation; Multi-professional team