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Salud mental de los mexicanos durante la pandemia de COVID-19

2021; Academia Nacional de Medicina de México; Volume: 157; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24875/gmm.20000612

2696-1288

Cristina Rodríguez-Hernández, Omar Medrano-Espinosa, Ariadne Hernández-Sánchez,

Resilience and Mental Health

Introduction:The COVID-19 pandemic has also affected mental health.Objective: To evaluate Mexican population mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic by measuring symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety and insomnia, as well as resilience.Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study.A survey was carried out to collect sociodemographic data, and the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 (DASS 21), Athens Insomnia Scale and the 14-item Resilience Scale (RS-14) were applied.Central tendency and dispersion measures were obtained for quantitative variables and frequencies for qualitative variables.The chi-square test was used for bivariate analysis; alpha level was 0.05.Results: 1,667 individuals with a mean age of 33.78 ± 10.79 years were analyzed.On DASS 21, a mean of 9.7 points (normal) was found, as well as 7.10 for anxiety (normal) and 6.73 for depression (normal).On Athens Insomnia Scale, a mean of 9.33 points (moderate alteration), and on the RS-14 scale, 69.13 points (high resilience) were obtained.Conclusions: Symptoms' intensity was lower than expected in comparison with that recorded in other populations, probably due to the high levels of resilience of the Mexican population.