COVID-19 depression in university students living in a vulnerable area of northern 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. 1, Nº. 0, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.