Rituais fúnebres e luto por covid-19: uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

The present work is a systematic review of funeral rituals and mourning for COVID-19, it sought to identify in the literature the changes brought about by the pandemic context in mourning rituals and reflect on the possibilities of psychology's contribution to grief resulting from COVID-19 through a systematic review considering the inclusion criteria to be a scientific article related to the research topic; have been published in the last 3 years; be available in full and free of charge, online; reflect on the elaboration of mourning due to COVID-19; contextualize funeral rituals during the pandemic and be available in Portuguese or English. And as an exclusion criterion, articles repeated among the indexers. The descriptors "Funeral Rituals", "mourning" and "covid-19" were used as a basis for the formation of three different combinations for research in the Virtual Health Library. As a result of this selection, a total of 15 articles were chosen for analysis , following the model proposed by Bardin (2011) for content analysis. From this process, three categories were developed to discuss the results obtained. As a result, aspects were identified that demonstrate the collective and individual importance of carrying out mortuary rites. With the advent of restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, this protective factor for healthy mourning was harmed. In view of this, adaptations were created to meet the need for the ritual and symbolize death, with wakes and memorials made through social networks. Psychology, faced with this reality, offers support and space for the meaning of this grief in exceptional conditions and finds space to deepen research on grief and terminal illness.