Influência do distanciamento social na saúde mental dos estudantes de odontologia devido à pandemia do COVID-19: um estudo transversal

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic was conceived in China bringing so many global impacts. There are still cases being recorded on the Asian Continent. It spreaded to all continents due to the high level of infectivity of the virus, requiring the adoption of measures of social distancing that brought potentially negative support in relation to psychological and social aspects in the lives of dentistry students. One of the aspects that got affected by the virus was the get students to finish their academic activities and graduate, taking into account the Brazilian socioeconomic diversity, they suffered emotional shocks that resulted in anxiety, stress and depression. A study from a survey applied within the dentistry students was done to assess the sociodemographic, the academic and the dissipation of psychosocial profile 'the Lipp Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults (ISSL) and "The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI ) also including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI.)The data were descriptively forwarded by a simple frequency and measures of central tendency. This study was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee, under the opinion of a number of 4,090,561. 68 students, from those who participated, 82.76% were females, 76.6% enrolled in public institutions, 27.9% with a family income above 10 times the minimum wage, living in apartments (64%), all with basic sanitation services. Of those surveyed, 80.9% performed partial social distancing and 73.5% reported impact on social interaction and financial condition (52.9%). The study showed 75% of students developed moderate symptoms of depression and 79.4% with severe symptoms of anxiety. These are the points that we can see how Covid- 19 has the most influence as per the survey results and how it has been affected so many lives.