Twelfth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

The year 2020 will be remembered by history as the year of the pandemic, in the face of this phenomenon, document the suffering, the anguish, the pain, the feeling not of those who suffer from the horrors of the disease but of those who experience it first-hand, the intensive care staff who are on the front line. From the philosophical point of view, this study will be approached from the perspective of Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher Danish, early 19th century, prolific writer, father of existentialism. In Kierkegaard it is conjugated as result of his life experience, Aristotelian thought, considering being as finite, where knowledge is the result of the approach to its own existence. Through this qualitative methodological study and with a phenomenological-hermeneutic design, it is sought understand the existential categories of front-line health personnel in the face of fear, fear and anguish that arises from the critical moments of accompaniment in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its impact on the healthcare professionals. The population that is determined for the investigation are first-line doctors of the city of Pereira in the department of Risaralda of various clinics and institutions, both public and private. The data collection techniques are framed in in-depth interviews and focus groups. Using the NVivo program, which gives the opportunity to organize and analyze qualitative information finding the connections between the data and arrive at a greater understanding of the phenomenon from a perspective hermeneutical phenomenology.