Perceived Stress by Students of the Medical Sciences in Cuba Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of an Online Survey

This dataset allows to replicate the analyses from the article "Perceived Stress by Students of the Medical Sciences in Cuba Toward the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of an Online Survey". An observational, analytical and cross-sectional, multicenter study was carried out. Data was self-reported data and collected through social networks. The group of possible participants was made up of students of the medical sciences (medicine, stomatology, nursing and health technologies) of the 2019-2020 academic year, from 14 of the 16 Medical Universities of Cuba. Of all the potential participants, 200 students completed and returned the surveys. Data were collected on the following sociodemographic traits of the participants: age, gender, academic year and Medical University. In order to determine possible stressors associated with stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the following information was requested: cohabitation at home, medical history, history of relative infected by COVID-19. Finally, the labor carried out during the months of the pandemic/quarantine was collected ("permanently isolated at home", "related to investigation work", "providing health care in hospitals", "collaborating in an isolation centers for suspected patients", "other activity" and specify, or a combination of the above). Then, in the same survey, participants answered the version modified of the 10-item stress perceived scale modified in relation to COVID-19. This scale was previously adjusted in its items 2 and 6 and with language adapted to our context. The EEP-10-C is composed of 10 items; each one of them offers 5 response options: "never", "almost never", "occasionally", "almost always" and "always". Items 1, 3, 9 and 10 are scored directly from 0 to 4 and items 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, contrariwise, from 4 to 0. The suggested high stress cut-off point perceived by the EEP-10-C developers for the population of the scale creators was ≥25 points.