COVID-19 depression in university students living in a vulnerable area of northern Lima

Asencios-Trujillo L.; Asencios-Trujillo L.; Rosa-Longobardi C.L.; Gallegos-Espinoza D.; Piñas-Rivera L. · Salud, Ciencia y Tecnologia - Serie de Conferencias (2022) · DOI: 10.56294/sctconf202291

Resumen

Being university students from socioeconomically vulnerable areas, depressive symptomatology tends to increase during the pandemic, so the objective of the research is to determine depression in post-COVID-19 university students in northern Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 30 people who completed a questionnaire with sociodemographic aspects and the Zung SelfAssessment Scale for Depression. In their results, 5 % (n=7) of the inhabitants are depressed, 30,5 % (n=10) are slightly depressed and 64,5 % (n=13) have normal depression. In conclusion, this research will allow highlighting the unfavorable conditions that pre-exist in vulnerable areas of our country, also product of the pandemic worsened thus giving the need for longterm interventions on mental health. © Autor(es); 2022.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle