Abstract
Objective: To assess stress and correlate it with social isolation caused by the pandemic in medical students at a university in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Methods: Observational, cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms for Adults (ISSL) was applied online to identify stress symptoms in the population of medical students from 1st to 6th year, associated with the questionnaire collected related information the socio-demographic profile and isolation status of each individual. Study approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results: Sample made up of 170 students, 77.1% female and 22.9% male, with a higher proportion of students between 18 and 25 years old. 72.9% considered they were partially in social isolation, 19.4% in total isolation and 7.6% were not in social isolation. Of the 170 participants, 67.6% had some symptom of stress, while 32.4% did not show enough symptoms to classify them in some phase of stress. Conclusion: But over the course of 2020 they had even higher rates, having a parallel relationship with a decrease in social contact and overload of online activities.