Sobrecarga de informação durante a pandemia da covid-19 e seu impacto na saúde mental de médicos recém-formados e estudantes de medicina

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has affected the daily lives of individuals around the world. In this context, the high flow of information about COVID-19 has had negative effects due to information overload. OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of information overload about COVID-19 on the mental health of medical students and newly graduated physicians. METHODOLOGY: Cross- sectional observational analytical study carried out in the first half of April 2020. Initially, all students in the final year of the Medicine course and graduates from 2018 to 2020 from the three medical schools in the state of Sergipe were invited to respond to an electronic form regarding the impact of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus on their mental health. This research was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research Involving Human Beings of the Federal University of Sergipe. RESULTS: For the the present study, a population of 1,000 individuals were invited. Of these participants, 88.9% reported exposure to information overload about COVID-19, 71.6% reported feeling anxiety due to excess information on the subject. Despite this, 51.6% reported not having enough information on the subject. CONCLUSION: There was an overload of information about COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, with repercussions on the mental health of medical students and newly graduated doctors.