Niveles de ansiedad frente al aprendizaje virtual en los estudiantes de la Carrera de Enfermería de la Universidad de Cuenca durante la emergencia sanitaria por covid-19, Cuenca 2020

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