Online meditation as an aid in reducing symptoms of Depression, Anxiety and Psychological Stress in Resident Physicians during COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

INTERVENTION: Behavioural It is a quasi‐experimental, randomized, blind study for researchers, with a control group, to be carried out entirely online, between July and September 2020, whose primary objective is to evaluate the effects of meditation on symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological stress in a group of doctors residing in the Pandemic course by COVID‐19, in Brazil 44 study participants will be referred by their preceptors and randomized to an intervention group with 22 participants or a control group with 22 participants. After signing the informed consent form, a questionnaire will be applied to track symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress (DASS 21) in both groups and repeated after the intervention. The intervention consists of weekly on‐line meetings of 60 minutes in duration, for meditation training, conducted by the same psychologists and doctors who participated in the aforementioned group, here considered a pilot. After the tabulation of the data, it will be offered to the participants of the control group, the same online training offered to the intervention group Psychotherapy, not elsewhere classified CONDITION: Depressive episode, unspecified Depressive episode, unspecified;Generalized anxiety disorder ; Depressive episode, unspecified ; Generalized anxiety disorder F00‐F99 Generalized anxiety disorder PRIMARY OUTCOME: ; It is expected to reduce with online meditation training, in 12 weeks, at least 10% Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety and Stress tracked by the DASS21 instrument Improvement of Quality of Life; ; SECONDARY OUTCOME: Improvement in interpersonal relationships, ved willingness to work and study INCLUSION CRITERIA: Medical residents of both sexes, who are attending the first (R1) or second (R2) years of training in any specialty, in any hospital in the city of Salvador will be included in the study