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Depression and anxiety among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: A web-based cross-sectional survey
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among Bangladeshi university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed at identifying the determinants of depression and anxiety. A total of 476 university students living in Bangladesh participated in this cross-sectional web-based survey. A standardized e-questionnaire was generated using the Google Form, and the link was shared through social media-Facebook. The information was analyzed in three consecutive levels, such as univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis. Students were experiencing heightened depression and anxiety. Around 15% of the students reportedly had moderately severe depression, whereas 18.1% were severely suffering from anxiety. The binary logistic regression suggests that older students have greater depression (OR = 2.886, 95% CI = 0.961-8.669). It is also evident that students who provided private tuition in the pre-pandemic period had depression (OR = 1.199, 95% CI = 0.736-1.952). It is expected that both the government and universities could work together to fix the academic delays and financial problems to reduce depression and anxiety among university students.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Islam, M. A., Barna, S. D., Raihan, H., Khan, M. N. A., & Hossain, M. T.
- Affiliations
- Khulna University (BD)
- Corresponding author
- Islam, Md. Akhtarul
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2020-08-26
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- e0238162
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7449469
- OpenAlex
- W3081367520
- Cited by
- 834
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 84 · 2023: 182 · 2022: 242 · 2021: 240 · 2020: 25
- FWCI
- 68.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Greater South Information System
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- depression, anxiety, university students, COVID-19 pandemic, prevalence, risk factors, age, private tutoring, academic delay, financial problems, Bangladesh
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Adolescent, Anxiety, Bangladesh, Communicable Disease Control, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Pneumonia, Viral, Surveys and Questionnaires, Students, Universities, Logistic Models, Coronavirus Infections, Young Adult, Pandemics
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