How Final-Year Medical Students Experienced the Pandemic: Effects on mental Health and Coping Mechanisms

Natally Galeano Jaimes; Nathalia Pachon Blanco; Valentina Galindo Silva; Yazmin Cadena-Camargo; Francisco Palencia-Sánchez; José Antonio Garciandía Imaz

doi:10.11144/javeriana.umed64-4.aedi

How Final-Year Medical Students Experienced the Pandemic: Effects on mental Health and Coping Mechanisms

Título traducido de la contribución: Cómo vivieron la pandemia los estudiantes de último año de medicina: efectos en su salud mental y mecanismos de defensa

Natally Galeano Jaimes, Nathalia Pachon Blanco, Valentina Galindo Silva, Yazmin Cadena-Camargo, Francisco Palencia-Sánchez, José Antonio Garciandía Imaz

Departamento de Medicina Preventiva

Universidad Javeriana

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Introducción: La experiencia de la enfermedad por covid-19 en 2019/2020 tuvo un impacto abrumador en los trabajadores de la salud, incluidos los estudiantes de medicina de último año, en quienes se vio afectada negativamente su experiencia de aprendizaje en el internado y en su salud mental. Métodos: Estudio de investigación cualitativa, con un abordaje fenomenológico-interpretativo. Se realizaron entrevistas grupales y se solicitó a cada participante la realización de un dibujo que representara lo que vivieron durante la pandemia por covid-19. Resultados: Se identificaron mecanismos de defensa como la negación y la escisión; los sentimientos de ansiedad, angustia, tristeza y miedo, y las percepciones positivas de la pandemia. Aparecen así mismo categorías emergentes como el síndrome de agotamiento profesional, las herramientas de afrontamiento y las barreras educativas. Discusión: Los mecanismos de defensa inmaduros que los estudiantes de medicina emplearon durante el año de internado y su relación con mayores niveles de estrés y mayor agotamiento emocional, así como el relato de situaciones que les generaron ansiedad, angustia, tristeza y miedo, además de síntomas del síndrome de burnout, muestran el impacto negativo de la pandemia por covid-19 en la salud mental de esta población.

Título traducido de la contribución	Cómo vivieron la pandemia los estudiantes de último año de medicina: efectos en su salud mental y mecanismos de defensa
Idioma original	Inglés
Número de artículo	596011
Número de páginas	12
Publicación	Universitas Médica
Volumen	64
N.º	4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.umed64-4.aedi
Estado	Publicada - 15 mar. 2024

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