Primeros auxilios psicológicos con personal médico durante la pandemia por covid-19 en los años 2020-2022.

Abstract

The health crisis due to Covid-19 that began at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 caused a global shock, many attention groups intensified their attention, for which Ecuador was no exception. During the Covid-19 pandemic, those who could not leave their jobs paused were developed with the front-line personnel, among them are the medical personnel. The present work is a bibliographic review on psychological first aid with medical personnel during the Covid-19 pandemic in the years 2020-2022. During the first months of the pandemic, they extended their working hours, isolated themselves from their relatives and in some cases were discriminated against for being one of the groups that was directly exposed to the virus through infected patients. All the experience they went through was creating stressors that through Psychological First Aid (PAP) could be better coped with, by observing the psychological impact that the virus was creating, the Ministry of Health of Ecuador developed a manual in which it mentioned techniques of PAPs who were able to help medical staff when they found themselves in a crisis situation.