Future expectations of undergraduate and graduate students after the COVID-19 Pandemic ; Expectativas de futuro de estudiantes de grado y posgrado después de la pandemia de COVID-19 ; Les expectatives d’avenir des étudiants de graduation, de master et au doctorate après pandémie de COVID-19 ; Expectativas de futuro de estudantes de graduação e pós-graduação após a Pandemia de COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought insecurities and uncertainties related to the future of university students, impacting their life projects, especially academic and professional projects. A descriptive, cross-sectional, exploratory study was carried out based on an epidemiological survey of the mental health conditions of a university community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This specific study focused on the perception of undergraduate and graduate students about the prospects for the post-pandemic future. A questionnaire adapted from Fiocruz, already used in previous studies on this topic, was used and was self-administered using the Google Forms platform. 652 responses from undergraduate and graduate students were analyzed regarding the following open question: " If you wish, write about your expectations for the post-pandemic future”. Simple descriptive statistics were used for sociodemographic data, using JAMOVI software version 1.8. For qualitative data, the software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires (IRaMuTeQ) was used in two types of analysis: Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC) and Similarity Analysis. The results obtained presented five classes, related to themes such as expectations regarding a) the future (pessimism and optimism); b) recovery of economic, personal, and social conditions; c) return to in-person teaching, aspects related to project execution and remote teaching; d) contingencies for overcoming the pandemic; e) uncertainties, feelings and attitudes regarding employment, career, income, and professional prospects. It can be noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a scenario of uncertainty, lack of perspectives, and concern about the future among university students, increasing the conditions of psychosocial vulnerability for this category. ; La pandemia de COVID-19 trajo inseguridades e incertidumbres relacionadas al futuro de estudiantes universitarios impactando sus proyectos de vida, especialmente proyectos académicos y ...