DEPRESSÃO, ANSIEDADE E ESTRESSE EM ESTUDANTES DE MEDICINA ANTES E DURANTE A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

This study aimed to evaluate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on levels of depression, anxiety and stress in Medical students at a federal public university in the Legal Amazon. This is a descriptive, analytical study with a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach. Data was obtained through an online form applied through the Google forms platform, which addressed sociodemographic and economic characteristics. To assess depression, anxiety and stress, the reduced version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) was used. For qualitative variables, simple absolute and relative frequencies were presented, and for quantitative variables, measures of central tendency and dispersion were calculated. Wilconxon's non-parametric test was used, which is a hypothesis test to analyze the difference between two paired samples. A significant level of p < 0.05 was considered. A total of 185 students with a mean age of 23.9 ± 3.3 years participated in the study. It was observed that there was a significant difference in the levels of depression, anxiety and stress among Medical students, when compared before and during the Covid-19 pandemic (p < 0.05). It is concluded that the pandemic intensified the levels of depression, anxiety and stress among the evaluated academics.