Levels of anxiety and postcoital depression in early childhood care in a Colombian municipality. A case study

Abstract

The crisis caused by COVID - 19, brought with it serious mental health problems, which represented in many countries a public health problem, it is emphasized that mental health is of great importance in different contexts, both family and work, taking into account that it is essential to generate social and productive links. The objective of this article is to describe the levels of anxiety and depression of an early childhood worker in a municipality of Colombia, due to the return to the workplace and contact with children, through a descriptive quantitative approach methodology where the DASS- 21 Scale (Depression, Anxiety, Stress -21) was applied, Anxiety Stress -21) established with seven items in each level, extremely high scores of anxiety and depression were evidenced, for which reason, proposals for action were designed individually and organizationally in order to help reduce those levels currently presented in the worker.