Mental health of youth and COVID-19: speeches producing the eduactional care mediated on the webradio

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the speeches of youths as producers of clinical and educational web-care about mental health in the context of COVID-19. Method: Exploratory-descriptive research with a qualitative approach carried out by synthesizing the contents and interactions of the Program "Em Sintonia com Saúde", produced at WebRádio AJIR in connection with youths from public schools and Higher Education Institutions in the State of Ceará, Brazil. Results: 40 questions-speeches about COVID-19 were carried out, being questioning questions that are in line with the fear of contracting the disease, enabling an increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms identified in colleagues, friends and family and concerns about safe information about the disease. Conclusion: The communication produced on the web radio helped young schoolchildren and university students in the development of strategies for approaching, listening and interacting in the context of social isolation, assisting them in decision-making to prevent and contain the pandemic of COVID-19.