Inteligencia Consciencial en adultos peruanos en tiempos de pandemia por COVID-19

Introduction: Consciential Intelligence or Spiritual Intelligence, a scientifically studied construct, more than 20 years ago, regains importance in the current times of crisis, due to its direct relationship with health, happiness, performance and humanization of health institutions and society in general. Objective: To identify the level of conscientious intelligence, possible relationships with socio-demographic, religious and spiritual variables and their variation from a measurement carried out before the pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional study, conducted in the Ica region of Peru during June to August 2020. 474 adults participated, answering a questionnaire with sociodemographic, religious and spiritual variables. The Consciential Intelligence was evaluated with a scale of 13 items. Relative frequencies, means and standard deviations, t-Student tests, ANOVA and Post Hoc tests were calculated. Results: Of the participants 35.02% presented an unhealthy level of Consciential Intelligence; 55.49% for improvement and 9.49% healthy. Those who consider themselves religious, spiritual, participate in religious activities, practice daily prayer or meditation and older adults score higher on the scale, reaching statistical significance (p<0.001). The overall scale score was lower before the pandemic (lower level) than during the pandemic (middle/lower level), with statistical differences (p=0.029). Conclusions: The study population maintains lower levels of Conscious Intelligence; there are related factors that contribute to its development. This modality of intelligence is presented as an alternative to humanize society and recover human values; therefore, it is necessary to cultivate and develop it, so that it can fully flourish.