Percepção de discentes sobre o impacto da pandemia de COVID-19 nas atividades do mestrado profissional em saúde

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed society and opened up weaknesses in political and economic systems. Teaching and research activities were affected, forcing institutions, teachers and students to restructure their actions. Objective: to identify the perception of students enrolled in the Professional Master's Program in Health about the effects of the pandemic on academic and research activities. Method: qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study, using a semi-structured questionnaire by Google Forms®. Automated Content Analysis was used, with the free software Iramuteq® for data treatment. Results: 26 responses were received, 88.5% of the participants are involved in facing the pandemic. The quality of the corpus was considered almost adequate (64.71% of use). 685 occurrences emerged, with 180 active forms (distinct words) and 58 supplementary forms, forming a single set. The content was categorized into 3 Clusters, based on the Descending Hierarchical Class. The distributions of text segments were different. Cluster 2 was the largest, with 39.40% of the text segments, followed by Cluster 1 (33.3%) and Cluster 3 (27.27%). Final Considerations: according to the participants' perception, the COVID-19 pandemic caused changes in academic and research activities. Face-to-face classes were replaced by remote teaching. However, research activities were affected, mainly regarding data collection and research continuity, requiring adaptations. It was noted the psychic effect of social isolation and change in lifestyle, as well as in living with colleagues in academic and orientation activities. New studies can be carried out, aiming to identify the longitudinal effects of the pandemic in academic and research activities.