Perceived Stress by Students of the Medical Sciences in Cuba Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of an Online Survey
| Autor: | Luis Alberto Lazo Herrera, Onelis Góngora Gómez, Frank Hernández-García, Rolando Zamora-Fung, Victor Ernesto González-Velázquez, Elys María Pedraza-Rodríguez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Students Medical 020205 medical informatics Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Disease cluster Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Health care Stress (linguistics) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Letter to the Editor Reliability (statistics) General Environmental Science Internet Psychological Tests business.industry COVID-19 Cuba Reproducibility of Results Health Surveys Confirmatory factor analysis Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Scale (social sciences) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Perception Self Report Factor Analysis Statistical business Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Revista Colombiana De Psiquiatria (English Ed.) |
| ISSN: | 2530-3120 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2021.02.003 |
| Popis: | IntroductionThe aims of this study were to determine the usefulness of the Modified (10-items) Scale of Perceived Stress related to COVID-19 (EEP-10-C by its acronym in Spanish) and to identify the levels of stress perceived by students of the medical sciences in Cuba toward the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted, with self-reported data of students from fourteen Cuban Universities of Medical Sciences (n = 200), through an online survey. The EEP-10-C was used as an instrument to identify stress. Its validity was determined through a confirmatory factor analysis and its internal consistency and reliability was measured by the Cronbach’ alph. A cluster analysis was performed to establish as cut-off point the center of the cluster with the highest values of stress perceived by the scale.ResultsThe average age of the sample was 23.30 ± 1.91 years, with observed scores of the EEP-10-C between 0 and 29 points (13.25 ± 5,404). When applying the cut-off point ≥25, only two students had high rates of stress perceived. The confirmatory factor analysis supported the validity of the instrument; with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.755. The cutoff point ≥20 was proposed as a reference of high stress perceived for the study population, when applying this one, 14% of students presented high rates of stress.DiscussionIn Cuba, students of the medical sciences have participated in research and supporting health care, despite which they have presented low levels of stress. The main contribution of the research was the validation of the EEP-10-C for its use in assessing levels of stress in Cuban medical students, proposing the cut-off point ≥20 as a reference of high stress perceived. |
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