A percepção dos docentes universitários do Curso de Gestão Hospitalar sobre o adoecimento mental

Abstract

Mental disorders are the main causes of psychological suffering, which may be linked to work. Factors such as high workload and task overload make university professors exposed to certain types of mental illness, and may be removed from activities, thus The study aimed to understand the perception of university professors from the hospital management course at a university in northeastern Brazil regarding mental illness. The methodology used was transversal, descriptive and with a qualitative approach, applied to Professors of the Hospital Management higher education course and was divided into two stages, firstly interviews were carried out with semi-structured questions to understand their perspective on mental illness and the connection with work, and a sociodemographic questionnaire in order to outline the profile of these professionals. In the second stage, the interviews were transcribed and analyzed using the Bardin content analysis technique. Among the 16 interviewees, the majority were female, aged between 30 and 62 years. From the analysis, two categories were found: “Concept of mental illness” and “Contributing factors for mental illness”, the overload of activities, accumulation of functions, participation in committees are cited as contributors to the mental illness of university professors.