Efectos psicológicos producidos por covid-19 en el adulto mayor del centro de acogida del cantón Píllaro, periodo marzo – septiembre 2020

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic shows the difficulties of older adults who are affected in their physical and mental health, which as a consequence of the measures taken by the government to safeguard their health has as a consequence the appearance of psychological effects . As a general objective we have Describe the psychological effects produced by COVID-19 in the elderly at the Seños de los Remedios reception center in Píllaro canton. The methodology used in this project was quantitative, descriptive, which corresponds to the cross-sectional field design because a statistical analysis of the psychological effects produced by COVID-19 was carried out in the elderly at the Señor de los Remedios reception center, in a determined period with real data, which will be obtained from the three scales of anxiety, depression and stress maintaining the inclusion and exclusion criteria where the results establish that one of the most relevant psychological effects was anxiety with a 68.06% percentage where Older adults manifested signs and symptoms such as headache, worry, tremors, and tension.