Factores psicológicos que influyen en el rendimiento académico de estudiantes universitarios durante el período abril-agosto 2021

Abstract

Background: The psychological factors presented by medical students are stress and anxiety; these interfere with academic performance, for which this degree work will be conducted. Objective: To determine the psychological factors that influence the academic performance of university students from April to August 2021. Material and methods: It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional census-based research study; the population is the students from the second to the tenth cycle of Medicine Faculty. The analysis will be performed using the SPSS V20 software for univariate and bivariate descriptions. Results: It was identified that 10% of the students demonstrated low academic performance, of which 57.6% were female, most of them from the basic unit with 74.4%. 71.9% showed high anxiety levels (PR 3.70; 95%CI 1.14 - 12.5), which has to do with low performance, and 92.9% presented high-stress levels. Sixty-four point four percent64.4% belonged to a nuclear family, so 84.1% mentioned having a functional family, but 4.8% said raising a lousy relationship with the mother (PR; 2.94; IC95% 1.07-12.04) caused low academic performance. Conclusion: Those students older than 21 years —mainly women— presented low academic performance, anxiety, and poor relationship with their mothers proved to be significant, in addition to showing high-stress levels related to confinement.