Relación del contagio de COVID - 19 con niveles de depresión y estrés en estudiantes universitarios

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Abstract: This research is focused on evaluating the relation of COVID-19 infection with levels of depression and stress; its development was conducted on a non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive, and comparative research between groups administered to 325 undergraduate university students of open and distance modality of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, through the application of surveys for the identification of infection, perceived stress (PSS10) and depression (PHQ9); the results obtained show that 69.23% of the participants did not become infected but had higher levels of stress with M=17.7511 and SD= ± 7.74022 and depression with M= 8.1733 and SD= ± 7.43371; In comparison, 30.77% of those who became infected had lower levels of stress with M= 15.0000 and SD= ± 7.39915 and depression with M= 5.9400 and SD= ± 6.21308. Finally, values were concluded presenting perceived stress with a metric of η²= 0.17 and depression equivalent to η²= 0.08 according to the criteria of (Cohen, 1988). These values are similar to those of other studies.