MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS RELATED TO COVID-19 CONFINEMENT IN MEDICAL STUDENTS

The pandemic has caused different effects on the mental health of medical students; new measures were implemented to try to reduce the risk of contagion, which has been helpful. However, mental health has become a public health problem because medical students are vulnerable to mental disorders. This study aimed to analyze the mental health affectations related to COVID-19 confinement in medical students of the Tampico School of Medicine of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. The methodology was descriptive, cross-sectional, observational and prospective; the instrument was the mental health questionnaire (GHQ-28) developed by Golberg and Blackwell and applied to 104 students of the medical surgeon degree of the Tampico School of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas. The results show that the alterations they mainly presented were social dysfunction, somatic symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia. It is concluded that there is currently a significant degree of mental health affectation in students due to the pandemic generated by Covid-19, so it is a priority to rethink medical education to reduce this impact on the trained professionals.