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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
versión On-line ISSN 1561-3046
Resumen
SIGUENZA CAMPOVERDE, Wilson Guillermo y VILCHEZ TORNERO, Jose Luis. Increased anxiety levels in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic season. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2021, vol.50, n.1 Epub 01-Mar-2021. ISSN 1561-3046.
Introduction:
In the presence of COVID-19, the World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic, affecting various sectors of the population, including education.
Objective:
To establish the relation between COVID-19 and anxiety in psychology and nursing students.
Method:
A quantitative, exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out. The population was 66 students from the psychology and nursing careers of the Private Technical University of Loja. We worked with a sample of 66 students of which 28,8 % were men and 71,2 % were women, through an accidental non-probabilistic sampling, with a mean age of 20,21 years, at whom applied a pre- and post-test of the Manifest Anxiety scale for AMAS-C university students.
Results:
It was found that the anxiety measures of the pre and post-test follow a normal distribution. Regarding the final anxiety of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase of 2,59 points was observed, in regards to the pre-test mean M = 24,74 before confinement.
Conclusions:
COVID-19 and the confinement of university students have increased their anxiety levels.
Palabras clave : coronavirus; COVID-19; anxiety; university students; pandemic.