Anxiety in medical students, during a COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Know the presence of anxiety in medical students from a private university in Colombia, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Non-experimental, quantitative, exploratory cross-sectional study; applied the DASS-21 scale. Cronbach's alpha of the total scale was 0 .79. Descriptive analysis was carried out in statistical package spss v21, data collection was by google forms during the month of December 2020, with prior informed consent. The convenience sample consisted of 115 students from the medical school of a private university in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. Of this, 60 were women and 55 men. 80 students were anxious (medium, moderate, severe, and very severe). Very severe and severe anxiety was more frequently expressed in women. It is concluded that during the COVID-19 pandemic, 80 of 115 medical students from a private university in Cartagena Colombia presented anxiety.