Pedagogical and Psychosocial Implications of Quarantine by Covid-19 on ChileanStudents

2020

REA

A raíz de la pandemia, los estudiantes chilenos tuvieron que cambiar de la instrucción presencial a la instrucción en línea para disminuir la propagación del Covid-19. Ante este escenario, es esperado algún grado de afección emocional en ellos. El objetivo de esta investigación fue identificar y analizar publicaciones cuya temática abordase la salud mental en confinamiento de estudiantes chilenos durante el año 2020. El análisis fue documental mixto, con un diseño descriptivo por medio de búsqueda de palabras clave que permitieron identificar temáticas de análisis. El procedimiento para realizar la revisión tuvo tres etapas: (i) identificación de las publicaciones, (ii) selección y (iii) elegibilidad. Debido a que se trata de una temática joven y específica, se realizó la búsqueda vía motor Scholar Google para ampliar los resultados. Se encontró un registro de 16 artículos bajo las temáticas salud mental y estudiantes chilenos en el motor de búsqueda. A través de la matriz de análisis usando los criterios de inclusión, se descartaron 12 artículos, quedando cuatro estudios para la revisión. Al analizar los textos seleccionados de manera íntegra, se mantuvo el mismo número de artículos. Se concluye que faltan investigaciones a nivel nacional de los efectos a la salud mental en los estudiantes en general. Si bien los artículos revisados representan un aporte dado que problematizan y ponen énfasis en las problemáticas vividas por estudiantes, se requiere de estudios descriptivos. Se espera que pasado un año de confinamiento por pandemia se pueda encontrar mayores estudios que permitan conocer el fenómeno en detalle.

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Salud mental en estudiantes chilenos durante confinamiento por Covid-19: revisión bibliográfica

2020

REA

“…As a result, the inescapable focus on the transmission and physical repercussions of COVID-19 in the world is likely to minimize public interest in psychosocial consequences in individuals related to the pandemic [2]. In this regard, the pandemic affected all societies and presented an unprecedented challenge in many areas, such as the environment, economy, education, and mental health [3][4][5][6][7][8]. When people isolate themselves, social support structures break down, and people lose exchanges with other significant elements of their environment, such as family, friends, community, or labor organizations, which usually act as sources of emotional and material support [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a higher dropout rate among the former than traditional instruction [15], and there is a general decrease in participation in these courses [16]. Among its virtues, online courses provide learning results equivalent to their face-to-face counterparts [17] and are used to reach students who would otherwise miss out on receiving an education [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotional Exhaustion Variables in Trainee Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cabrera

2023

EJIHPE

Introduction: emotional exhaustion among trainee teachers is a relevant topic since it could have repercussions regarding the lives of their future pupils. Our objective was to determine the degree of trainee teachers’ emotional exhaustion and associated variables during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: the design was cross-sectional and descriptive. Questionnaires with sociodemographic variables, perceptions of mental health, and the Emotional Exhaustion Scale (ECE) (α = 0.890; ω = 0.893) validated for the Chilean context were answered by 204 trainee teachers. The results were analyzed using SPSS software version 25 and the Emotional Exhaustion Interpretation Table (EES-Int). Results: the results show that 92.2% of the trainee teachers presented a worsening in their mental health, stress (66.2%), irritability (38.2%), anxiety (37.7%), and depressive symptoms (32.8%). Online classes (73.04%) and the pandemic (67.6%) were the main influencing factors. Education students who perceived their mental health had worsened became 6.63 times more likely to develop emotional exhaustion [AOR = 6.63; 95% CI: 1.78, 24.69]. In addition, education students with a high perception of academic stress were 7.45 more likely to develop emotional exhaustion [AOR = 7.45; 95% CI: 1.98, 28.09]. Conclusion: we can conclude that trainee teachers have high levels of emotional exhaustion and their perception of their mental health and the academic stress they are being subjected to during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead them to present symptoms of frequent or permanent problems with concentration, attention, recall of information, dissatisfaction with their performance, and frequent learning difficulties. From the affective dimension, they present frequent or permanent anxiety, restlessness, irritability, indifference, low mood, and psychomatization. From the socio-interactional dimension, they present frequent or permanent social withdrawal, interpersonal problems, problems at work or school, and family and relationship problems. Increasing the sample to delve into emotional exhaustion by subject area is necessary. For future studies, research should be conducted on the causes of emotional exhaustion by subject area and the coping strategies of trainee teachers to understand differences and provide input on emotional support in practice.

“…Covid-19 is an illness that has heavily impacted everyday life. It has reached high mortality rates and political, social, psychological, educational and economic consequences (Martínez-Líbano, 2020;Martínez-Líbano, Yeomans, González-Campusano, & Campos-Flores, 2021;Martínez-Líbano & Yeomans-Cabrera, 2021a;Martínez-Libano & Yeomans-Cabrera, 2021b;Yeomans-Cabrera & Silva-Fuentes, 2022;Yeomans, Martínez-Líbano, & Silva, 2021;Yeomans-Cabrera & Silva-Fuentes, 2020). The pandemic interrupted normal activities for most of the world population due to social distancing policies and lockdowns (Tasnim, Islam, Sujan, Sikder, & Potenza, 2020), and it became an epidemic affecting all aspects of human lives (Nguyen & Le, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, research points to anxiety and depression as the main psychiatric symptoms of Covid-19, adding that one out of five patients diagnosed with the virus has presented unstable mental health (Taquet, Luciano, Geddes, & Harrison, 2021). This pandemic has decreased the quality of life and impacted on the mental health of people all over the world (Kaparounaki et al, 2020;Martínez-Libano & Yeomans-Cabrera, 2021a;Martínez-Líbano & Yeomans-Cabrera, 2021b;Yeomans-Cabrera & Silva-Fuentes, 2022;Yeomans-Cabrera & Silva-Fuentes, 2020). Many parents have experienced an increasing overload of tasks and higher stress as family-life routines have been disturbed (van Tilburg et al, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Escala de Miedo al Covid-19 en Estudiantes Universitarios Chilenos: Propiedades psicométricas e invarianza de medida

Vallejos

Simkin

et al. 2023

Evaluar

Los últimos acontecimientos relacionados con el Covid-19 han sido muy estresantes en la vida de los universitarios chilenos. A partir de lo anterior, es imperativo contar con un instrumento sólido para medir el miedo al Covid. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo estimar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Miedo al Covid-19 (FCV-19S) en una muestra de 562 estudiantes universitarios chilenos y confirmar su estructura factorial. Se realizó un análisis factorial confirmatorio y se estimaron los parámetros del modelo utilizando el método de mínimos cuadrados ponderados diagonalmente (DWLS). La evaluación de FCV-19S tuvo valores satisfactorios (ω = .94; α = .93). Los resultados mostraron que el modelo de dos factores correlacionados se ajusta mejor a los datos CFI = .993, TLI = .989, RMSEA = .053, SRMR = .049. Estos hallazgos sugieren que la FCV-19S tiene las propiedades psicométricas adecuadas para su aplicación en estudiantes universitarios chilenos.