<p>The&nbsp; article is well written and presents a very important discussion about the mental problems we are all facing which is the pandemic COVID-19.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is original and discusses an important problem. The literature review is updated and present papers from the last year, since COVID arrived in most countries. The literature also brings papers from Latin American researchers which can contribute to understand the social, economical and mental problems in these countries. The text and the references are based on APA style .</p>
<p>This research procedure is empirical , non experimental.</p>
<p>Method. There are some questions about the method. Participants were from how many universities, private or publics?.&nbsp; Socioeconomic status are described as 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 but no further reference is furnished to compare . For example: Level 1 ( mininum wage? comparable in dollars or local money), level 2 , level 3, etc......</p>
<p>Instruments. The main instrument was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Escala de Desesperanza de Beck (EDB</span><strong>).&nbsp;</strong>Items for this scale were presented in Table 1. However, due to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">test</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">copyrights</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">these items cannot be present to the general publi</span>c. Therefore, it is recommended that only the general factors of this scale should be presented, as it was done for tables 2, 3, 4. The authors may also consider to remove this table.</p>
<p>Table 4 should also present a note identifying what means level 1, 2, 3, 4.</p>
<p>Discussion. It is comprehensive and combine the literature from the introduction with the results.</p>
<p>Therefore, these sections of the manuscript should be reviewed in order it can contribute to the knowledge of mental problems in COVID times.</p>
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