Abstract

VELASCO, Deisy Rocío Pinto; GRINCENKOV, Fabiane Rossi dos Santos; SANTIAGO, Luana Dutra  and  TRINDADE, Patrícia Santa Rosa Lourenço. Denialism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis in the Light of Cognitive-Behavioral Theory. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.1, pp.97-108. ISSN 1516-0858.  https://doi.org/10.57167/Rev-SBPH.v25.031.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought, among the numerous challenges imposed on health researchers, the need to understand the behaviors adopted for the prevention of the disease, since attitudes of denial of the disease and consequent non-adherence to prevention actions are made it a reality. In this way, the present study aimed to understand, through a narrative review of the literature, the reasons that lead individuals to adopt denialist behaviors in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on theoretical frameworks of the Cognitive-Behavioral Theory, seeking to analyze the main determinants of behaviors of non-adherence to prevention guidelines. Through this survey, it was observed that health beliefs, motivational aspects and contextual factors are associated with adherence to preventive behaviors of the disease. Understanding the experience of the pandemic as a stressful and potentially traumatic event, denialism is thus presented as a collective coping mechanism in the face of fear of the unknown, the possibility of contagion by the disease and fear of death.

Keywords : covid-19; denialism; cognitive behavioral therapy.

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