Avaliação de ansiedade, depressão e estresse em universitários de ensino superior privado com EADS-21

Abstract

Descriptive cross-sectional study developed amongst university students of private higher education in order to compare levels of anxiety, depression and stress among students of the first and the last year of their courses. It was used auto fillable instrument in two parts containing socio-demographic data (sex, age, course, year attended) and the EADS 21 Questionnaire - Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale. In total 217 students participated, 83 of the first year and 134 of the last year. The comparison between the mean scores among the participants according to the enrolled series did not present statistical significance (p <0.05) for anxiety, depression and stress. It was observed that the mean scores for anxiety (4.3 ± 4.5) are equivalent for both series. Depression is higher in the first year (5.8 ± 4.7) than in the last year (5.2 ± 4.8). The same occurs with stress between the first year (7.5 ± 4.4) and the last year (7.4 ± 5.1). It is concluded that the first year students present higher scores in the evaluated items.