Niveles de depresión, ansiedad y estrés en docentes de la Universidad de Cuenca durante el periodo marzo – agosto 2022

Abstract

Depression, anxiety, and stress are conditions that can manifest in people from different societies. High and frequent levels of depressive, anxious, and stress symptoms can cause clinically significant discomfort for the person who suffers from them, affecting the different spheres of their life. Teachers are highly vulnerable to suffering from the aforementioned pathologies due to the peculiarities that their profession requires, as it is characterized by a predisposition to triggering this type of symptomology. The objective of this study was to describe the general levels of depressive, anxious, and stress symptoms according to different sociodemographic characteristics, for which the self-applicable DASS-21 reactive, by authors Lovibond and Lovibond, and a sociodemographic form created by the investigators was used. The study had a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental cross-sectional design and a descriptive scope. To meet the research objective, a nonprobabilistic sample was taken by quotas, with the participation of 92 teachers; considering

each

area of knowledge within the University of Cuenca as a stratum. As a result of this research, it was found that the presence of depressive, anxious, and stress symptoms in university teachers is 30.3%, 41.3%, and 31.5%, respectively, highlighting the moderate level of symptomology. These results are explained due to the sum of social factors and the working conditions specific to teaching. It is concluded that in the three emotional states, the absence predominated over the presence of symptomology.