POS-553 PRESENCE AND SEVERITY OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC-ASSOCIATED DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING HEMODIALYSIS AT THE TARIJA DEPARTMENTAL NEPHROLOGY AND HEMODIALYSIS CENTER – BOLIVIA

Abstract

The pandemic and confinement due to COVID-19 alters the mood of any individual, but it affects in a very special way those who suffer from both organic and mental diseases, such situations like the kind we usually live generally aggravate symptoms easily by presenting feelings of loneliness, fear, uncertainty or sadness.Anxiety and depression are the psychiatric disorders that have been most frequently associated with chronic kidney diseases and chronic non-transmitted diseases (diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, etc.).