Manifestaciones de ansiedad en docentes debido a confinamiento por SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

The teachers of the Juan Montalvo Fiscomisional Educational Unit, as a result of the suspension of face-to-face classes due to the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic, have continued their work in a virtual way, and like the rest of the people, they have had to face events stressful vitals; such as contagion by covid-19, family losses and financial difficulties. Situation that has brought with it the expression of certain manifestations of anguish. The present work aims to quantify anxiety levels in the population described by using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and a survey on demographic data; instruments applied to 16 teachers of the basic elementary and middle sublevel of the aforementioned educational institution. A descriptive non-experimental research was used, obtaining as a result that, despite the various calamities presented by the teaching population during the pandemic, a high percentage of anxiety levels that oscillate between the normal and moderate categories and within of the ranges mentioned, a slight prevalence of subjective symptoms over somatic symptoms. It is concluded that the low incidence of anxiety levels in teachers could respond to several group protective factors that were implemented since the beginning of the pandemic; However, it is recommended to implement other types of instruments such as individual interviews and other scales that allow knowing the particularity of the symptoms in the study subjects.

Keywords: Anxiety; Sars-Cov-2; teachers.