| dc.description.abstract | Background: faced with the context of confinement by Covid-19, a virus that in most
cases compromises the life of the human being, with consequent changes in lifestyles,
personal, family, social, work and learning; by the eminently respiratory form of
transmission. In this sense, millions of students around the world face the challenge of
continuing with their studies from their homes, through the use of different digital
platforms, which leads to the development of anxiety due to the abrupt change in the
methodology of the teaching-learning process learning.
Objective: to establish the levels of anxiety in the face of virtual learning in the students
of the Nursing Career of the University of Cuenca during the health emergency due to
COVID-19, Cuenca 2020.
Methodology: the type of study was quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional cohort;
the universe consisted of 439 nursing students, with a sample of 176 students
according to the formula of Pita Fernandez S. The instrument used was the William
Zung Anxiety Scale, and a data collection form prepared by the authors. The data were
recorded, organized and processed in the SPSS program, Word, Excel and written in
simple tables of frequency and percentage.
Results: the study population was made up of 89% of people between the ages of 19
and 25, single marital status (95%), female (86%), urban residents (68%), from the
mountains (84%); 70% considered themselves to be in a condition of vulnerability,
being the poor / unstable internet connection (50%) the most frequent problem; 64%
of the population indicated that virtual learning was regular, 84% had internet for
classes from home, followed by 12% who used mobile data anywhere outside the
home, the most used device was the computer (58%) and cell phone (39%). 24% of
the population presents mild anxiety followed by 4% moderate.
Conclusions: The study population has a low level of anxiety in relation to studies
from other countries, however the difficulties of the internet and the deficient materials
to receive the classes are elements that agree with several studies, on the other hand,
the teaching strategies -Learning that they used in times of pandemic considering the
emergency and all the changes that this meant have made the student aware of
considering virtual classes as regular | |
