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Analysis of the Coping Strategies of Primary Health Care Professionals: Cross-Sectional Study in a Large Brazilian Municipality

Version 1 : Received: 31 January 2022 / Approved: 8 February 2022 / Online: 8 February 2022 (16:23:26 CET)

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Lourenção, L.G.; Rigino, B.M.; Sasaki, N.S.G.M.S.; Pinto, M.J.C.; Ximenes Neto, F.R.G.; Borges, F.A.; Santos, M.L.S.G.; Penha, J.G.M.; Galvão, D.M.; dos Santos, B.M.P.; Cunha, I.C.K.O.; de Oliveira, J.F.; Afonso, M.S.; Cunha, C.L.F.; da Silva, F.G.; Freire, N.P.; do Nascimento, V.F.; Rodrigues, S.T.; de Carvalho, T.M.; Lemos, M.; da Cunha, J.L.; Domingos, N.A.M. Analysis of the Coping Strategies of Primary Health Care Professionals: Cross-Sectional Study in a Large Brazilian Municipality. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 3332. Lourenção, L.G.; Rigino, B.M.; Sasaki, N.S.G.M.S.; Pinto, M.J.C.; Ximenes Neto, F.R.G.; Borges, F.A.; Santos, M.L.S.G.; Penha, J.G.M.; Galvão, D.M.; dos Santos, B.M.P.; Cunha, I.C.K.O.; de Oliveira, J.F.; Afonso, M.S.; Cunha, C.L.F.; da Silva, F.G.; Freire, N.P.; do Nascimento, V.F.; Rodrigues, S.T.; de Carvalho, T.M.; Lemos, M.; da Cunha, J.L.; Domingos, N.A.M. Analysis of the Coping Strategies of Primary Health Care Professionals: Cross-Sectional Study in a Large Brazilian Municipality. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 3332.

Abstract

The aim was to analyze the coping strategies used by primary health care (PHC) professionals. A cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study was conducted with professionals working in primary health care units in São José do Rio Preto, a large city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. For data collection we used an instrument developed by the researchers, containing sociodemographic and professional variables, as well as the Problem Coping Modes Scale (EMEP). We evaluated 333 PHC professionals. A difference was observed between the scores of the four coping strategies (p<0.001), with the highest score for the problem-focused strategy (3.8) and the lowest score for the emotion-focused strategy (2.4). Physicians had the lowest scores in coping strategies focused on religious practices/fantastical thinking (p<0.001) and pursuit of social support (p=0.045), while community health agents had the highest scores in these coping strategies). Professionals working in PHC have different coping strategies for the problems and stressful situations experienced in the work environment. These strategies can involve more positive attitudes focused on confrontation and problem solving, to emotional responses that involve attitudes of avoidance and denial that involve attitudes of avoidance and denial of the problem.

Keywords

primary health care; family health strategy; health personnel; adaptation; psychological

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health

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