Mood and health status of university personnel during COVID-19 isolation period
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COVID-19, pandemic, social isolationAbstract
Aims: The objective of this research was to know the state of mind and health of the personnel working in the Universities of the Cuenca-Ecuador canton, during the period of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods: This were a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional research, carried out in the universities of the province of Azuay, after obtaining the permission of the Bioethics Committee, a validated survey was applied, whose independent variable was mood in the staff of the four universities in the process of isolation by COVID-19, the data 610 data were analyzed using the SPSS statistical program. Results: The number of resulting electronic surveys was 610. We found data of affection in the mood of the employees, especially in groups of young employees between 18 and 44 years old (p=0.002), with reference to sex, women present greater wear and tear in their mood with 66.56% over men 59.17% (p= 0.047). In addition to this, 65.02% did not present pathologies and the remaining percentage of workers showed diseases of various etiologies. Conclusions: University employees presented a deterioration in their mood, as an effect of the health crisis we are going through worldwide and presented a low prevalence of other pre-existing diseases in this period of isolation, among which the most frequent were those associated with metabolic damage.
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