Mental health in health professionals facing the intervention in the pandemic generated by the SARS-COV-2 virus

Abstract

The objective of the article was to know the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of health personnel who work in the front line of COVID-19 care, given the adjustments they make in their daily professional and personal routine, carrying out a theoretical review of articles , manuals, and research generated in this regard, finding factors involved at the personal, occupational and social level that negatively favor mental health, and are mainly correlated with stress, the severity of the negative impact will depend on the self-care that the staff has health care and the care that its system provides, which both the World Health Organization and the Panamerican Health Organization have been proposing and each country adjusts it to its population. As a suggestion, it remains to verify the effectiveness of long-term self-care and care behaviors as well as the maintenance of results.