Introduction:

The COVID-19 worldwide, has brought with it that the population experienced physical and mental problems, which in extreme cases lead to death and bring with them high levels of anxiety for those who are involved in this type of situation.

Objectives:

To establish the geographic distribution of the anxiety present in university students in relation to the number of deaths due to COVID-19.

Method:

A quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted. The population consisted of 720 male and female university students between 17 and 64 years of age, from twenty-three provinces of Ecuador, who were evaluated with the Manifest Anxiety Scale for university students.

Results:

One of the main findings was that 12,2 % show evidence of extreme anxiety and 22,9 % clinically significant anxiety. The existence of a significant association between natural regions of Ecuador and the anxiety level of students is identified (p= 0,04). Furthermore, the relationship between deaths from COVID-19 per 100 000 inhabitants per province and anxiety (p= 0,015) is established.

Conclusions:

Finally, sex variables, people with whom you live, employment situation, natural regions of Ecuador, cycle of study and university career were related to anxiety levels.

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