[Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress from COVID-19 in a family medicine unit].

Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional "Manuel Ávila Camacho", Jefatura de División de Investigación en Salud. Puebla, Puebla, México.

Published: August 2021

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has come to change our way of life, completely modifying even the form of coexistence, which can lead anyone to suffer from anxiety, stress or depression, either out of fear of getting infected, losing a loved one or simply because of the limitation to go outside.

Objective: To determine the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in the beneficiaries of a family medicine unit of first level of care and to establish their relationship with age.

Material And Methods: Observational, relational, crosssectional study, in 185 beneficiaries of a family medicine unit from June 15th to August 15th, 2020. Sociodemographic data were requested, and the DASS-21 scale was applied to search for symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. Univariate analysis was performed with measures of central tendency and dispersion. For the bivariate analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationship between age and stress.

Results: Symptoms of depression were found in 11.9%, anxiety in 22.7% and stress in 14.5% of the participants. A weak negative relationship (r = -0.199, p = 0.007) was found between age and stress.

Conclusion: There are symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress, with a weak, statistically significant negative relationship between age and stress.

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