COTIDIANO FAMILIAR DE USUÁRIOS DO CENTRO DE ATENÇÃO PSICOSSOCIAL NO CONTEXTO DA PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly reverberated all aspects of life, including the mental health of the population, due to safety restrictions, such as social distancing, which have altered family dynamics. This study aims to describe the family daily life of users of the Psychosocial Care Center in the Context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is qualitative research, based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception. Ten users of the Psychosocial Care Center II and their families participated. The production of information took place through phenomenological interviews between March and June 2023 in the municipality of Jequié- BA, Brazil. The research is linked to the project “Family Mental Health in its life cycle during the Covid-19 pandemic”, approved by the Ethics Committee of the State University of Southwest Bahia. To analyze the descriptions, the ambiguity analysis technique was adopted. The descriptions revealed two thematic categories: resignification of everyday life during and after the COVID-19 pandemic as a transcendence of family life; and, (re)knowledge and appreciation of others in the face of the changes caused by the covid-19 pandemic. In the first, we reflect on the individual and group experiences of the daily family life of users of the Psychosocial Care Center in the pandemic context. In the second we focus on understanding the feelings expressed in a period that distanced and brought us closer, resulting in recognition of the other. The results revealed that families (re)discovered opportunities to build bonds through humanitarian emergencies, such as COVID-19.