Navarro-Espinosa, Johanna AndreaVaquero-Abellán, ManuelPerea-Moreno, Alberto-JesúsPedrós-Pérez, GerardoAparicio-Martínez, PilarMartínez-Jiménez, Maria Pilar2025-01-072025-01-072021-09-12https://hdl.handle.net/10668/27785Stress can result in psychopathologies, such as anxiety or depression, when this risk factor continues in time. One major stressor was the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered considerable emotional distress and mental health issues among different workers, including teachers, with another stressor: technology and online education. A mixed-method approach is presented in this research, combining a cross-sectional study of university teachers from Ecuador and Spain with a medium of twenty years of working experience (N = 55) and a bibliometric analysis carried out in three databases (161 documents). The levels of anxiety and depression, and therefore the risk of developing them as mental disorders, were high. The lack of training (penAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/COVID-19STEM teachersmental healthmixed-methoduniversityAnxietyCOVID-19Cross-Sectional StudiesDepressionHumansMental HealthPandemicsSARS-CoV-2TechnologyUniversitiesresearch article34574529open access10.3390/ijerph181896051660-4601PMC8472288https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9605/pdf?version=1631581191https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8472288/pdf