Mental health status, anxiety, and depression levels of Bangladeshi university students during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected people of all ages across the world both physically and psychologically. Understanding COVID-19's impact on university students' mental health status in Bangladesh has been limited, yet is a necessary population to study, since they are particularly vulnerable to stress and mental health issues. This study assessed anxiety, depressive symptoms, and mental health status among university students in Bangladesh. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Revised Scale, and Mental Health Inventory-5 were translated into Bangla and administered to university students (N = 874) online. In total, 40% of the participants had moderate to severe anxiety, 72% had depressive symptoms and 53% had moderate to poor mental health status. Moreover, path analysis showed worrying about COVID-19 and knowledge about the virus predicted anxiety and moderate to poor mental health status; knowledge and belief about COVID-19's severity in Bangladesh predicted depressive symptoms. Thus, revealing that mental health issues were high and COVID-19 worry predicted psychopathology symptoms among Bangladeshi university students. Overall, these results, examining students' mental health during COVID-19, in April 2020, can be helpful to compare how students have adjusted over the pandemic's progression.
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The prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms in this sample is lower than that reported in early pandemic studies on young adult populations.
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- Authors
- Faisal, R. A., Jobe, M. C., Ahmed, O., & Sharker, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Chittagong (BD)
- George Washington University (US)
- Noakhali Science and Technology University (BD)
- Corresponding author
- Faisal, Rajib Ahmed
- Venue
- International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
- Published
- 2021-01-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1500-1515
- ISSN
- 1557-1874 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1882
- PMC
- PMC7781410
- OpenAlex
- W3120523998
- Cited by
- 275
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 80 · 2021: 36
- FWCI
- 38.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, university students, mental health, anxiety, depressive symptoms, COVID-19 worry, COVID-19 knowledge, Bangladesh
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