Escuela Profesional de Contabilidad. Universidad Nacional de Cañete.
Facultad de Tecnología. Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle.
Facultad de Pedagogía y Cultura Física. Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle.
Anxiety is a phenomenon that generates concern and anguish in students because they cannot carry out their classes adequately, therefore, the objective of the study is to determine the level of anxiety in nursing students of a private university during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, composed of 215 participants who developed a questionnaire of sociodemographic aspects and the anxiety scale. In their results, 41 % (n=59) of the students have a high level of state anxiety, 51,4 % (n=74) medium level and 7,6 % (n=11) low level. In conclusion, this research will allow the development of specific measures to decrease anxiety in students in order to maintain their mental health.
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