Ansiedade e qualidade do sono em estudantes de fisioterapia durante o distanciamento social

Abstract

Introduction: Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that present a clinical picture ranging from asymptomatic infections to respiratory symptoms causing severe respiratory syndrome, thus requiring the individual to have ventilatory support Objectives: To observe whether or not there is a change in the quality of sleep and anxiety in university students during social distance. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. 137 students from the Physiotherapy course at PUC Goiás. Three questionnaires were applied: Socio-demographic Questionnaire, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory Results: At the end, 137 students participated in the research. Of these 85.4% (117) are women, attending between the 3rd and 9th period, most 87.6% are single and 88.3%(121) mentioned that they have a religion and 61.3% (84) are practitioners. In relation to family income, 46% (63) have an income between 1 to 2 minimum wages, females had a higher level of anxiety where it was statistically significant (p=0.02) when compared to males; students who do not engage in regular physical activity also had a higher level of significant anxiety (p=0.04) and those who do not work had poor sleep quality (p=0.04). Conclusion: The pandemic and the social distance caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) brought harm to the students in this study. Most have sleep disturbance or poor sleep and a considerable level of anxiety.