Nursing care in the mental health of school adolescents residing in a vulnerable area of North Lima

• Asencios-Trujillo, Lucia ^[1] ; Asencios-Trujillo, Lida ^[1] ; La Rosa-Longobardi, Carlos ^[1] ; Gallegos-Espinoza, Djamila ^[1] ; Piñas-Rivera, Livia ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle

     Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle

     Perú

     
• Localización: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias, ISSN-e 2953-4860, Vol. 2, Nº. 0, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Mental healthduring the COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the greatest negative impacts that  the population has had  worldwide, which makes them more susceptible to  mental disorders as a result, so the research objective is to determine the mental health of School Adolescents residing in a vulnerable area of North Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive-transversal study, with a population of 306 participants who answered a questionnaire of sociodemographic aspects and the scale of depression, anxiety and stress. In the results we observed that 30,7 % presented extremely  severe depression, 8,8 % severe depression,  19,3 %  moderate depression, 12,4 %  mild depression and 28,8 %  normal depression.  In conclusion, measures should be taken to provide  mental health care to vulnerable School Adolescents.