Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic
Introduction: University students suffer psychological alterations during confinement due to COVID-19, that need to be addressed to in a timely manner to avoid further complications. Objective: Determine the effect of a brief online intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in...
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| author | María Leticia Bautista-Díaz Carmen Julia Cueto-López Karina Franco-Paredes Diana Moreno Rodríguez |
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| description | Introduction: University students suffer psychological alterations during confinement due to COVID-19, that need to be addressed to in a timely manner to avoid further complications.
Objective: Determine the effect of a brief online intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Quasi-experimental-longitudinal design (pretest-posttest and one follow-up) of experimental and control group, 44 male and female university students between 18 and 24 years old were selected through a non-probabilistic intentional sampling, who answered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Perceived Stress Scale in three times of evaluation. A brief online intervention based on psychoeducation and cognitive-behavioral techniques was carried out to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Group data was analyzed with Friedman's non-parametric test and the clinical-objective-change was calculated individually.
Results: There were no significant differences in the two groups at the three time of evaluation (x2r; gl = 2; p > 0.05), but when analyzing the clinical-objective-change in the experimental group, it was determined that between the pretest-posttest and pretest-follow up, 40,7 % y 37,0 % of the participants, presented a positive clinical-objective-change in anxiety. For depression, was also positive in 25,9% y 18,5 %; and in stress was of 11,1 % y 33,3 %, we can appreciate in this last variable an increase in the student´s percentage with a positive change through time.
Conclusion: Brief online intervention reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6bcdfbbd3ac34c41b22eae51786c11ea2022-12-21T23:37:29ZspaECIMEDRevista Cubana de Medicina Militar1561-30462021-10-01504e02101575e02101575478Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemicMaría Leticia Bautista-Díaz0Carmen Julia Cueto-López1Karina Franco-Paredes2Diana Moreno Rodríguez3Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Estudios Superiores IztacalaCentro Universitario del Sur, Universidad de GuadalajaraCentro Universitario del Sur, Universidad de GuadalajaraUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Estudios Superiores IztacalaIntroduction: University students suffer psychological alterations during confinement due to COVID-19, that need to be addressed to in a timely manner to avoid further complications. Objective: Determine the effect of a brief online intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Quasi-experimental-longitudinal design (pretest-posttest and one follow-up) of experimental and control group, 44 male and female university students between 18 and 24 years old were selected through a non-probabilistic intentional sampling, who answered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Perceived Stress Scale in three times of evaluation. A brief online intervention based on psychoeducation and cognitive-behavioral techniques was carried out to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Group data was analyzed with Friedman's non-parametric test and the clinical-objective-change was calculated individually. Results: There were no significant differences in the two groups at the three time of evaluation (x2r; gl = 2; p > 0.05), but when analyzing the clinical-objective-change in the experimental group, it was determined that between the pretest-posttest and pretest-follow up, 40,7 % y 37,0 % of the participants, presented a positive clinical-objective-change in anxiety. For depression, was also positive in 25,9% y 18,5 %; and in stress was of 11,1 % y 33,3 %, we can appreciate in this last variable an increase in the student´s percentage with a positive change through time. Conclusion: Brief online intervention reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/1575ansiedadcovid-19salud mental. |
| spellingShingle | María Leticia Bautista-Díaz Carmen Julia Cueto-López Karina Franco-Paredes Diana Moreno Rodríguez Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar ansiedad covid-19 salud mental. |
| title | Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic |
| title_full | Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic |
| title_short | Intervention to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in Mexican university students during the pandemic |
| title_sort | intervention to reduce anxiety depression and stress in mexican university students during the pandemic |
| topic | ansiedad covid-19 salud mental. |
| url | http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/1575 |
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