Religiosity of health professionals acting on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2024.1.43046

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religiosity, professionals, COVID-19, confrontation

Abstract

The objective was to evaluate the religiosity of health professionals who worked on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive and analytical study, developed with health professionals online through the Google Forms tool. A questionnaire containing sociodemographic, clinical and work data and the Duke Religiosity Scale – DUREL was used. 100 health professionals participated, with a mean age of 33.3±8.3 years, most of them female (81.0%). Regarding the Duke Religiosity scale – DUREL, the subscale corresponding to organizational religiosity computed a median of 4 points, considered low religiosity; the non-organizational religiosity subscale computed 3.5 points, defined as high; and intrinsic religiosity, 6 points, considered high. The results of the study showed that healthcare professionals working on the front lines of COVID-19 had low organizational religiosity, high non-organizational religiosity and high intrinsic religiosity.

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Manuela Silva Couto, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Master in Gerontology from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. Specialist nurse through the Multiprofessional Residency in the Specialized Clinical Care Program with Emphasis on Infectology and Neurology at the Franciscan University (UFN), in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Diego Chemello, Federal University of Santa Maria

PhD in Cardiology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Patrícia Chagas, Federal University of Santa Maria

Nutritionist with a PhD in Biomedical Gerontology from the Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul with a Post-Doctoral Internship at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CSIC-ICCC) of Hospital Sant Pau, IIB-Sant Pau, in Barcelona/Spain . Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Nutrition at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Permanent Professor at the Postgraduate Program in Gerontology at the Federal University of Santa Maria and at the Postgraduate Program in Functional Rehabilitation at the Federal University of Santa Maria.

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2024-12-13

How to Cite

Silva Couto, M., Chemello, D., & Chagas, P. (2024). Religiosity of health professionals acting on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psico, 55(1), e43046. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2024.1.43046