Psychosocial risk triggers and their association with mental health in university students: A cross-sectional study

Abstract

PROBLEM: psychosocial risk factors are existing risk elements that endanger people's health, having features that make them difficult to manage, evaluate and monitor. There are psychosocial risk factors that affect university students, but unfortunately they are not They have published figures that allow us to know how many of these students are affected by these risks. OBJECTIVE: determine the triggering factors of psychosocial risk and their association with mental health in university students. METHOD: quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study, a sample of 80 students was used and the DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety and Stress scale was used as an instrument. RESULTS: the factors that most affect students are homework, high own expectations, adaptation to the university environment, difficulty feeling part of the group, finding or maintaining a job, poor support from friends, personal problems, comparison of achievements and negative experiences. in college. CONCLUSION: anxiety levels are the highest since the majority are at an extremely severe and moderate level. A difference from stress and depression where the majority is in a mild and moderate range.