Depresión por COVID-19 en estudiantes universitarios que viven en una zona vulnerable de Lima Norte

Lucia Asencios-Trujillo; Lida Asencios-Trujillo; Carlos La Rosa-Longobardi; Djamila Gallegos-Espinoza; Livia Piñas-Rivera

doi:10.56294/sctconf202291

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Published: 2022-09-28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56294/sctconf202291

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

Abstract

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 Self-Assessment 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 long-term interventions on mental health.

Keywords:

Mental health,

Depression,

Vulnerability,

Coronavirus,

How to Cite

Asencios-Trujillo L, Asencios-Trujillo L, La Rosa-Longobardi C, Gallegos-Espinoza D, Piñas-Rivera L. COVID-19 depression in university students living in a vulnerable area of northern Lima. Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias [Internet]. 2022 Sep. 28 [cited 2024 Jun. 26];1:91. Available from: https://conferencias.saludcyt.ar/index.php/sctconf/article/view/91

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