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PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL IMPACT OF THE QUARANTINE PERIOD DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ECUADOR

Abstract:

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, forced humanity to initiate a period of quarantine in order to reduce the number of contagions and lethality of the virus, several countries reported that this period of isolation brought emotional and physical consequences in the population evaluated, so the present study seeks to determine the behavior of the Ecuadorian population in the face of quarantine by assessing their psychological and physical health; For this purpose, the standardized questionnaire SF12 in its second version of 2002 was used, which uses a Likert scale to analyze the mental and physical health of the respondents, obtaining as results that the Ecuadorian population’s emotional health was mainly affected, while their physical health did not show significant changes.