Introduction:

During the university stage, students face several situations that can affect their mental health; however, each of them may be able to deal with them adequately. Therefore, this study had the objective of determining the relationship between resilience and perceived stress in midwifery students at a public university in Lima, Peru.

Subjects and methods:

Analytical and cross-sectional study, realized in midwifery students at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru. The instruments used were the resilience scale and the global stress perception scale, which were applied in person and confidentially. Descriptive statistics were used, and the Spearman correlation test was used prior to applying the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to establish the relationship between the variables.

Results:

The mean age of the students was 20.8 ± 1.7 years. Most of the students had a medium resilience capacity (25.8%) and high levels of perceived stress (48.3%); also, a direct but very weak relationship was estimated between these variables (rho = -0.496; p < 0.001). The dimension of 'personal competence' had a very weak relationship with stress (rho = -0.53; p < 0.001); but the 'acceptance of self and life' did not have it (rho = -0.387; p < 0.001).

Conclusion:

In midwifery students, resilience had a direct and significant relationship, although of a very weak magnitude, with the stress perceived by themselves.

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