Os impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 na saúde mental dos técnicos administrativos do IFG e os legados de Buber

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought several adversities for today. The whole world was disturbed by the coronavirus. Economy, health, employment, interpersonal relationships, are several of the areas that were affected. Among the areas impacted by the coronavirus, mental health is also included. The concern about Covid-19 virus brought people not only physical illness, but also mental illness. The fear of getting sick, uncertainties about the future, many deaths, among other factors, caused a big impact on the mental health of humanity. The objective of this study was to verify if there were and what were the effects brought by the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of IFG administrative technicians, who are part of the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education. The methodology used was based on data collected from psychiatric sick notes delivered to the Integrated Health Care Subsystem of the Federal Server – SIASS in the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. With the collected information, a comparison was made of the number of psychiatric sick notes received in these four years; investigating whether or not there was an increase in the submission of these sick notes during the pandemic period. Along with the verification and analysis of these data, the impacts brought by the pandemic on people’s mental health, were evaluated based on Martin Buber’s dialogic conception. The Jewish thinker is considered the philosopher of the encounter and revels the importance of an inter-human relationship based on authentic relationships, as well as in dialogue between people. Buber created the principle-words, I-You and I-That, indicating when human beings relate in a true way (I-You) and when they relate thinking of the other just as a simple object (I-That).