Alteraciones emocionales en los adolescentes durante la pandemia Covid-19

Abstract

With the arrival of the covid-19 virus in the year 2020, the world population was forced to be confined to their homes, causing emotional disturbances that require the services of professionals specializing in mental health for vulnerable people, which generated emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety by trait and state. The research was carried out in a population of adolescent and adult men and women between 15- 25 years old, from the San Miguelito parish of the Píllaro canton. It was a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study. Evaluation instruments such as the Beck inventory and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used in order to detect repetitive emotional disturbances. To obtain the results, Google Forms was used as a survey manager capable of handling large volumes of data, generating graphs and tables of information, with which the emotional symptomatology such as moderate depression was determined, while state and trait anxiety have a level one (somewhat and often) result in the study population, after which nursing principles were applied.