Impacts on Interdisciplinary Care for Pregnant Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Since March 2020, Brazil has been facing a public health emergency largely caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the implications are changes in institutional routines, affecting both workers and users. This article, resulting from a Residency Completion Project (TCR), aims to analyze the repercussions on interdisciplinary care for pregnant adolescents followed at the Adolescent Outpatient Clinic of the Assis Chateaubriand Maternity School (MEAC) in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the perspective of the professionals on this team. This is a qualitative study with data obtained from bibliographic and documentary sources, and semi-structured interviews. The research subjects are professionals who make up the interdisciplinary team: Social Worker, Nurse, Physician, and Psychologist from the Outpatient Clinic. We found that the pandemic negatively impacted the work of this team because the actions carried out by the professionals of the specialties began to be developed in a particularized manner. We also found that the pandemic context affected the quality of care by restricting consultations, suspending health education groups conducted by the team, and forcing professionals to create new strategies to guarantee minimum care for pregnant adolescents.