Covid-19: a construção de uma linguagem documentária a partir de de termos presentes na literatura científica

Abstract

The need to create vocabularies is increasingly present, and in the context of health the evidence is much greater, as we are inviting the appearance of new illnesses or a certain variable or “innovation” of those already diagnosed. This is the case of COVID-19, a disease that arrived bringing inexplicable changes, at first and enabling both the creation and use of terms or lexicons to specify the surroundings of the fact and, naturally, a linear increase in the production of scientific literature. It is in this context that this research was developed focusing on the following general objective: to build a thesaurus about COVID-19 with terms present in the scientific literature of Health Sciences, published between 2020 and 2022, in Portuguese. Methodological path: this is bibliographical research, of an exploratory nature, with a qualitative approach. Data collection was based on titles, abstracts and keywords present in 60 productions selected from the CAPES, PUBMED and VHL Periodicals Portal, using the following search strategies: “COVID-19” and “COVID-19 AND HEALTH". As inclusion criteria, nouns or adjectives with an indirect or direct association with the theme “COVID-19” were adopted, covering symptoms, treatments, sequelae, health professionals, prevention, words popularized during the pandemic, etc. While articles (definite and indefinite) and prepositions were discarded. To develop the thesaurus, the Thesaurus Construction Guide developed by IBICT and the open-source software TemaTres were used. Regarding the results achieved, 920 terms were collected, however, after calculating repetitions, 396 terms remained. However, for the inclusion of terms in the thesaurus, only those confirmed in the bibliography consulted to verify representativeness were considered, namely 277 terms. There was a higher incidence of the following terms: COVID-19 (57), pandemic (48), SARS-CoV-2 (21), case (15), disease (13), virus (12), health (12), patient (12), Coronavirus (12) and coronavirus infection (11). We conclude that, from the research, one can see the enormous need to develop representation instruments on the COVID-19 theme, mainly due to the constant variants of the disease and constant production of research addressing this subject.