| Summary: | The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced social mobility and social interactions in periods of confinement. Objective: to evaluate the levels of anxiety, depression, and stress of Portuguese students from two polytechnic institutions. Methodology: correlational descriptive cross-sectional study. Instrument: Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale-21, Portuguese version, applied between November 19 and December 4, 2020. Results: about 6.5% of participants reported a severe or extremely severe level of anxiety and depression. Conclusions: Significant differences were found between the affective states of students from the two Polytechnic Institutes, with higher (worse) levels in students from Leiria. Women’s affective states were more negative than men’s.
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