Vestibular e as repercussões associadas à ansiedade dos candidatos

Abstract

Introduction. During the before selection examination period the candidates tend to adopt excessive study routine. This, associate with concerns of the exam, can to induce to pathologic levels of anxiety and, among other, may to implicate their performance in the test Objective. To analyze the anxiety levels in undergraduate students on the selection examination period. Method. It is an exploratory, longitudinal and inferential study from case-control type with sample per convenience, composed by 39 students undergraduate (ENEM-2015) of both gender and 17 mean age (±1,01). Was used The Beck Anxiety Inventory – BAI, the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale – HAM-A) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index – PSQI. For statistical analysis of paired comparisons, the probability distribution (descriptive) and the McNemar test (inferential) was used with p≤0,05 in the SPSS for windows – 21.0 from 2012. Results. In the sleep analyses, 35,9% exhibited bad level and 46,2% of students ingested psychotropic with the purpose to stay awake. The larger prevalence observed was anxiety levels, 20,5% - grave (BAI) and 12,8 – serious (HAM-A) in the third moment. Conclusions. The period of student selection examination could to interfere in the anxiety levels and sleep quality of these undergraduate inducing them to ingest psychotropic negligently.