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Qualitative perspectives of isolation experiences due to COVID-19 of a bioethicist's groups in training, with interdisciplinary healthcare activity. Medellín Colombia. September 2020
Introduction:In Colombia, there is still little information on how health care personnel have lived and coped with isolation due to COVID-19.Objectives: To explore the experiences related to the isolation of health professionals, with interdisciplinary care activity, between March and September 2020, Medellín-Colombia.Methods: Qualitative, exploratory, with a group of bioethicists in training.Data collected through the Focus Group, after obtaining the consent and approval of the Institutional Ethics Committee.Open and axial coding was performed.Texts are presented in prose, triangle and valid information with the participants.Results: Work increased and staff decreased, with high staff turnover, redistribution and reassignment of loads and roles, facilitating physical and emotional overload.They considered that teleworking facilitated their work, although more work was done.They lived in double isolation, had losses and assumed work and family overloads.For fear of infecting and being infected, they separated from their loved ones, "this is an absolutely lonely disease, if one does not die from COVID, sadness and loneliness kills him."It affected "the recovery process, specifically, of psychiatric patients was prolonged, worsening their condition."They live in the present, and prioritize what is most important, because "having health and those you love is the best wealth".Conclusion: Isolation increased their workload, with reassignment of roles, affecting health care.For fear of becoming infected and infecting, they lived a double isolation, with anguish and uncertainty, which is why now they prioritize the most important health and love.