Aveiro-Róbalo, Telmo RaulGarlisi-Torales, Luciana DanielaChumán-Sánchez, MarisellaPereira-Victorio, César J.Huaman-Garcia, MarianaFailoc-Rojas, Virgilio E.Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.2023-02-072023-02-072022-10-09https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13053/7772We aimed to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress in university students in Paraguay during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 293 students from four universities in Paraguay in 2021. The DASS-21 mental health scale was used to measure the outcomes (depression, anxiety, and stress) and evaluate their association with socio-educational variables. A total of 77.1% of the participants were women and 136 (46.4%) were between 21 and 25 years old. The prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress was 74.7%, 87.4%, and 57%, respectively. We found that being a woman and studying at a public university was positively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress. Receiving COVID-19 training increases the prevalence of mental health problems. In conclusion, high levels of anxiety, depression, and stress were found in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being a woman, studying at a public university, and receiving training on COVID-19 were factors associated with a higher prevalence of presenting all the mental health problems evaluated. Furthermore, students aged 31 and over had a higher prevalence of depression and stress.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/depression; anxiety; stress; COVID-19; Paraguayinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912930http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.03.00