No. 70 (2020): Number 70 - December 2020
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Prevalence of anxiety, depression and fear of COVID-19 in the general Salvadorean population

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  • Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade,
  • Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera,
  • Mauricio Cervigni,
  • Miguel Gallegos,
  • Pablo Martino,
  • Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez,
  • Ignacio Barés,
  • Manuel Calandra,
  • Angélica Nohemy Flores-Monterrosa
Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Mauricio Cervigni
Centro de Investigación de Neurociencias de Rosario (CINR-UNR)
Miguel Gallegos
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Minas Gerais
Pablo Martino
Centro de Investigación de Neurociencias de Rosario (CINR-UNR)
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez
Universidad Privada del Norte
Ignacio Barés
Centro de Investigación de Neurociencias de Rosario (CINR-UNR)
Manuel Calandra
Centro de Investigación de Neurociencias de Rosario (CINR-UNR)
Angélica Nohemy Flores-Monterrosa
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador

Published 2020-12-15

Keywords

  • Anxiety,
  • Depression,
  • Fear - psychological aspects,
  • Fear of death,
  • Covid-19 - Psychological aspects

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Chacón-Andrade, E. R., Lobos-Rivera, M. E., Cervigni, M., Gallegos, M., Martino, P., Caycho-Rodríguez, T., Barés, I., Calandra, M., & Flores-Monterrosa, A. N. (2020). Prevalence of anxiety, depression and fear of COVID-19 in the general Salvadorean population. Entorno, 70, 76-86. https://revistas.utec.edu.sv/index.php/entorno/article/view/623

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to determine the prevalence of anxiety, depression and fear symptoms at the face of COVID-19 in the Salvadorean population. In like manner, to determine the seriousness in each psychological variable as well as to find out whether there is a connection with the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample. This is an exploratory study with a transversal design; in order to collect the data, an online survey was conducted via Google Forms. A non-probabilistic sample of 328 Salvadoreans was taken. The mean for the age is 27.90 years old, with a SD of 9.10; in regards to gender, the mean is of 29.05 for men, with a SD of 9.94, and for women, a mean of 27.42, with a SD of 8.70. The findings show a high prevalence of anxiety symptoms; these fluctuate between 60 % and 80 %. Those symptoms related to depression are between 50 % and 70%, and finally, in relation to fear to COVID-19, there was a prevalence between 20 % and 40 %. In terms of the degree in which it affected people, 90 % of the sample shows moderate to severe anxiety and depression levels. It was possible to establish connections among gender, age, and the amount of hours spent thinking about COVID-19. In regards to fear of COVID-19, the findings show that about 30 % of the sample has been affected by it in relation to gender and the number of hours spent thinking about COVID-19.

Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, Fear - psychological aspects, Fear of death, Covid-19 - Psychological aspects.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v0i70.10373
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11298/1183

 

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