Avaliação do nível de estresse, qualidade do sono, ansiedade e depressão em estudantes do curso 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. A strategy to avoid mass contamination would be social isolation (distancing), however, with social isolation, some changes related to individuals are visible, such as the perception of psychological and behavioral impacts that affect social well-being due to this distance caused by the period of confinement. Objectives: The objective of this research was to verify the level of stress, sleep quality, anxiety and depression in physiotherapy students during the period of social isolation and to correlate variables with each other. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. 137 students from the Physiotherapy course at PUC Goiás. Five questionnaires were applied: Socio-demographic Questionnaire, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression 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. Conclusion: The pandemic and the social distance spread by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) brought harm to the students in this study. Most have a sleep disorder or poor sleep and a stress level of anxiety, depression and stress. Keywords: stress; sleep quality; anxiety; depression; physiotherapy students; social distancing