Depresión por COVID-19 en estudiantes universitarios que viven en una zona vulnerable de Lima Norte

Abstract

Being university students from socioeconomically vulnerable areas, depressive symptomatology tends to increase during the pandemic, so the objective of the research is to determine depression in post-COVID-19 university students in northern Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 30 people who completed a questionnaire with sociodemographic aspects and the Zung SelfAssessment Scale for Depression. In their results, 5 % (n=7) of the inhabitants are depressed, 30,5 % (n=10) are slightly depressed and 64,5 % (n=13) have normal depression. In conclusion, this research will allow highlighting the unfavorable conditions that pre-exist in vulnerable areas of our country, also product of the pandemic worsened thus giving the need for longterm interventions on mental health. © Autor(es); 2022.