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In this context, a literature review aimed at analyzing the teaching activity and its constituent elements in Brazilian public universities and relating it to mental illness found that precarious work conditions and work overload, flexibilization of labor relations, financing shortage, excess of institutional control, poor infrastructure and violence are factors that affect the mental health of lecturer, who can develop Burnout Syndrome and Common Mental Disorders®. The concept of symbolic violence proposed by Pierre Bourdieu(6) is defined as "subtle violence", in which the victim does not perceive the aggression and sometimes acts condescendingly. [...]the literature® points to the urgent need to give visibility to the phenomenon of symbolic violence in pedagogical relationships in higher education. The exclusion criteria were being on vacation, work leave, and/or absent from work during the data collection period(12-13). Data collection and organization Data were collected from September 2020 to February 2021, through a semi-structured interview with questions recorded in the Google Forms platform and applied and recorded by the researcher via Google Meet, on a date and time scheduled at the convenience of the interviewee, due to the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020.
ABSTRACT
Caregivers of individuals with cancer in the COVID-19 pandemic are faced with the demands of cancer and the health needs produced by it, along with their own health and self-care needs, and the uncertainties of expectations and risks. A qualitative analytical phenomenological study with caregivers of individuals with cancer registered at the state referral hospital supplying medications, who answered the sociodemographic assessment questionnaires and semi-structured questions about their feelings and perceptions in the COVID-19 pandemic. Bardin's content analysis was used, with methodological quality assessed using SRQR Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research and the MAXQDA software. Most of the caregivers are women, married, Catholic, of low income and education, aged between 30 and 60 years, optimistic, comply with health guidelines regarding social distancing, use of masks, and routine hand hygiene, do not practice regular physical activities, mention concern for their own physical and financial survival, and that of their family. The main need identified in the affective sphere was to reframe contact with family members, seeking to strengthen the bonds of affection. The feeling of emotional vulnerability shows the importance of building effective public policies for social support consistent with the improvement of health care for this population.