• Rev Bras Enferm · Jan 2020

    COVID-19 pandemic: report on the use of auriculotherapy to optimize emergency workers' health.

    • Rosiane Lopes Trigueiro, Açucena Leal de Araújo, Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira, and Raquel Sampaio Florêncio.
    • Universidade Estadual do Ceará. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
    • Rev Bras Enferm. 2020 Jan 1; 73 (suppl 2): e20200507.

    ObjectiveTo report the use of auriculotherapy to optimize emergency workers' health during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsExperience report of auriculotherapy application in 48 workers of a mobile emergency care service center located in a city in the Northeast of Brazil.ResultsSix auriculotherapy sessions were held, each lasting eight minutes, based on specific protocols in the area and Chinese energy physiology. The aim of the practice was to contribute to the improvement of physical (pain) and emotional (anxiety, stress) symptoms, and the promotion of greater health and willingness to work. In addition, the experimentation of this practice was thought of as a pilot for the creation of a care service for workers.Final ConsiderationsIn the report of auriculotherapy, the description of its application and its positive and negative points in relation to professionals working in the pandemic scenario were considered and its continuity was requested.

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