Prevalencia de trastornos de ansiedad en pacientes mayores de 17 años atendidos por el servicio de psiquiatría en el Hospital Naval Guayaquil, Ecuador durante el año 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: With the presence of COVID-19 in 2020, as it is an endemic disease; It also led to negative effects on the cognitive and emotional stability of patients older than 17 years, who developed an anxiety disorder as a secondary effect, paying unavoidable attention to the consequences generated by the prolonged period of confinement at home, which was a factor influential in the high prevalence rates of psychiatric referrals. Methodology: Cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study, with retrospective data collection. The data analyzed were extracted from the statistics area of the Guayaquil Naval Hospital for the period 2020. Results: The largest number of patients was female in 55.80%, with ages ranging from 18 to 93 years, with a median 46 years and a mode of 38 years in the sample group of patients. In addition, there was a 66.7% higher proportion of episodic paroxysmal anxiety in 66.7% at a general level; and according to sex, the female gender presented mostly diagnoses of specific phobias in 60% and in the male sex, 66.7% for generalized anxiety. Conclusions: Regarding the prevalence of anxiety disorders, the research showed a trend of 74%, while, in the specific ones, episodic paroxysmal anxiety disorder reached 66.7%.