Objective: To determine the symptoms of stress and psychotropic use as a consequence of COVID 19 due to the confinement of university students in a private university. Huancayo - 2022. Material and Methods: The research is descriptive, with a non-experimental and transversal design. Population: students enrolled in the 2022 - II cycle of the Professional School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. Sample: 230 students. Results: The sociodemographic relationship with the stress symptoms found is predominantly female, the predominant age is over 24 years. The frequency of consumption of antidepressants is once a month consumed in 6.5%. In terms of prescription by a physician, antidepressants were found with 3.9% and benzodiazepines with 4.5%. The consumption of antidepressants was 10.3% and benzodiazepines 8.4%. The symptoms of stress and use of psychotropic drugs as a result of COVID 19, the lev...