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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Life conditions and emotional health of musicians

during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

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Luciana Pires de Sá Requião *, Margareth Guimarães Lima , Clara Sandroni ,
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Daniela Maria Ferreira , and Carlos Sandroni 5
1 Department of Education, Angra dos Reis Institute of Education, Fluminense Federal University,
State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2 Department of Collective Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas,
Campinas, Brazil
3 Villa-Lobos Institute, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4 Department of Educational Psychology and Guidance, Education Center, Federal University of
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
5 Department of Music, Arts and Communication Center, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Abstract

This study presents results of a research on the musicians’ job market during the
COVID-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive study performed with data collected
through an online questionnaire (RedCap). It was possible to identify demographic
and socioeconomic features of musicians from the larger regions of Brazil. We also
Academic editor: compared the intensity of social distancing and the living conditions of musicians in
Mihajlo Jakovljevic M.D. Ph.D. MAE the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic, their income and working conditions,
as well as their emotional health, with the same parameters before the study period.
*Corresponding author:
Luciana Pires de Sá Requião Most of the musicians who responded to this survey have graduate degree (38.7%),
(lucianarequiao@id.uff.br) but 32% was not graduated; 8% of musicians living with half a monthly minimum
Citation: Requião, L.P.S., Lima, wage (MW) family per capita, 31.4% with 2 – 4 MW, and just 18% declare earnings of
M.G., Sandroni, C., Ferreira D.M., 4 or more MW per capita. Most musicians (68.2%) reported loss of income during the
Sandroni, C. 2023. Life conditions pandemic. Furthermore, 48.5% reported working in a home office during the social
and emotional health of musicians
during the COVID-19 pandemic in distancing period, but 46.7% were not working. Most musicians made use of digital
Brazil. Global Health Econ Sustain, technologies before the pandemic and continue to use it; 64.2% of respondents who
1(1): 0434. did not use these technologies started to use them during the pandemic period.
https://doi.org/10.36922/ghes.0434
Received: April 13, 2023
Keywords: COVID-19; Musicians; Brazil
Accepted: July 11, 2023
Published Online: July 24, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 Author(s).
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Creative Commons Attribution In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the epidemic of the
License, permitting distribution, and new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome
reproduction in any medium, which coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with the first outbreak in China in December 2019, as a
provided that the original work is
properly cited. pandemic (Lewnard & Lo, 2020; WHO, 2020). Cases of COVID-19 in Brazil surpassed
37 million, and there were more than 700,000 deaths caused by the disease, from 2020
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