IntroductionNursing work requires technical, scientific competence, knowledge, skill and emotional control over practice, considering that care presents risk situations, physical and emotional stress, responsibilities with people’s lives, coping with fears and suffering. All this situation in which the professional is exposed can lead to the occurrence of psychological wear, high stress and anxiety, this is conceptualized as a vague and unpleasant feeling of fear, apprehension, with characteristics of tension or discomfort derived from anticipating danger, something unknown or strange.ObjectivesTo identify the prevalence and factors associated with anxiety among nursing professionals who work coping with COVID-19 in a Brazilian regional university hospital.MethodsCross-sectional observational study, with sociodemographic questionnaire and anxiety measurement scale (HAD), with 88 nursing professionals. The data were analyzed using absolute and relative frequency, using the software StatisticalPackage for the Social Sciences.ResultsThere was a prevalence of anxiety (48.9%), with the majority of the sample consisting of women, over 40 years old, married or in a stable relationship, white, with higher education or postgraduate education, with income above R $ 3,000.00, tendered, with a work regime of 40 hours per week and time in the hospital from 1 to 5 years.ConclusionsThe impact should be considered on Nursing Mental Health caused by COVID-19 and intervene with coping strategies to minimize anxiety.

A família é um dos alicerces primordiais na construção social do individuo ofertando a sensação de pertencimento e acolhimento. Ao passar pelo processo de hospitalização, diversas alterações são percebidas e vivenciadas por esse grupo, podendo acarretar em sofrimento mental. Este artigo traz reflexões resultantes de uma pesquisa realizada com as famílias que tiveram os seus membros hospitalizados devido a COVID -19. Objetivouse identificar as estratégias de enfrentamento em Saúde Mental dos familiares dos pacientes internados na ala COVID-19 em um hospital universitário regional, verificando os modos de coping utilizado pelas famílias. O presente artigo tem como embasamento teórico a Teoria de Coping de Lazarus e Folkmann (1984), correlacionando as estratégias para enfrentamento do estresse categorizadas pelos pesquisadores e as famílias participantes. Portanto, trata-se de um estudo transversal e descritivo, de abordagem