Open AccessFactors associated with anxiety in medical interns at a private university in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Efraín Antonio Cehua Alvarez,
Joseph Alburqueque-Melgarejo,
Horus Michael Virú Flores,
Juan Carlos Roque Quezada,
Catherine A. Suárez Egoávil,
Israel Armando Guerra Cuyutupac
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina humana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0531
pISSN - 1814-5469
DOI - 10.25176/rfmh.v22i2.4409
Subject(s) - anxiety , context (archaeology) , snowball sampling , clinical psychology , medicine , observational study , poisson regression , psychiatry , psychology , environmental health , population , paleontology , pathology , biology
Objective:To determine the factors associated with anxiety in medical interns at a private university in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The study design is quantitative, observational, analytical, retrospective, cross-sectional. The sample was composed of 343 human medicine interns, who were selected by a non-probabilistic snowball type sampling. The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale instrument was used for the diagnosis of anxiety. A Poisson regression model with robust bivariate and multiple variances was used to calculate the prevalence ratio and their respective 95% condence intervals. Results: The prevalence of anxiety and severe depressive symptoms of 22,74% and 6,71% respectively was found. Depressive symptoms aPR 3.27 (95% CI 1,06 - 10,09), having children aPR 2,61 (95% CI 1,26 - 5,38), and the diagnosis of COVID-19 in the last 12 months aPR 2,20 (95% CI 1,25 - 3,87) were associated with the presence of anxiety in the multiple regression model. Conclusions: The presence of severe depressive symptoms, having children, the diagnosis of COVID-19 in the last 12 months are associated with the diagnosis of anxiety in medical interns at a private university in Lima, 2021