Bibliographic citations
Escalante, C., Hurtado, K. (2023). Ansiedad y depresión según área curricular en estudiantes de medicina humana en una universidad privada de Cusco 2022 [Universidad Andina del Cusco]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/5298
Escalante, C., Hurtado, K. Ansiedad y depresión según área curricular en estudiantes de medicina humana en una universidad privada de Cusco 2022 []. PE: Universidad Andina del Cusco; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/5298
@misc{renati/27326,
title = "Ansiedad y depresión según área curricular en estudiantes de medicina humana en una universidad privada de Cusco 2022",
author = "Hurtado Granados, Karen Shashenka",
publisher = "Universidad Andina del Cusco",
year = "2023"
}
Introduction: Being a medicine student involves an education with a heavy academic burden, long hours of study and practice. This added to other intrinsic and extrinsic factors can lead to neglect of students' mental health, affecting their professional, academic and personal development. The bibliography reports that there are certain levels of anxiety and depression in medical students, so this study seeks to evaluate whether these levels present differences according to the curricular area that the student is studying, in addition to evaluating sociodemographic variables that may affect those levels. Objective: To determine the relationship between the levels of anxiety, depression and the curricular area in medicine students from II to XII cycle of the Universidad Andina del Cusco in the academic semester 2022-II. Materials and methods: quantitative study, with an observational, analytical, cross-sectional and prospective design; the population were students of the Professional School of Human Medicine of the Universidad Andina del Cusco. 164 students participated to whom a data collection sheet was applied with the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory II, which were later analyzed using the Kruskal Wallis, U de Mann Whitney and Hedges' g test. Results: 164 surveys were collected; the overall anxiety score was 16 on the Beck Anxiety Inventory. The highest mean anxiety score was found in the clinical areas, 21 points on the Beck scale. The Kruskal Walis test shows a difference in anxiety levels regarding the curricular areas with a statistically significant difference (p = 0.001). The largest standardized difference in means “Hedges' g“ was 1.00, between the curricular areas of clinical areas and gynecology-obstetrics and pediatrics. The overall depression score was 17 on the Beck Depression Inventory II. The curricular area with the highest level of depression was clinical areas with a score of 17. The Kruskal Wallis test showed the statistically significant difference in the levels of depression with respect to the curricular areas (p = 0.021). The highest standardized mean difference for depression “Hedges' g” was 0.52 for surgical areas and clinical areas. Conclusions: It was observed that all curricular areas presented a level of anxiety and depression. The study showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the levels of anxiety, depression and the curricular area in medicine students. It is evident that the highest levels of anxiety and depression are in the curricular area “clinical areas“, corresponding to a moderate level in the inventories. There was no evidence of a statistically significant relationship between the variables sex, marital status or family status with levels of anxiety and depression.
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