Abstract:
Objective: This study aimed to find out anxiety and depression among tertiary level students in Bangladesh during COVID-19 outbreak. Method: The online survey design was used in this study. To measure anxiety and depression, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scales were used. Binary logistic regression was performed to assess the impact of several factors on the likelihood that respondents would report that they had a problem with anxiety and depression. Results: The strongest predictor of binary logistic regression of reporting anxiety was gender (OR: 2.848; 95% CI; 1.836-4.417; p Conclusion: This study showed that students were having different level of anxiety and depression. Gender, the present living place and the duration of using social media were the significant factors for anxiety disorder. Depression was also getting affected by the present living place and the duration of using social media.
Machine summary:
To measure anxiety and depression, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scales were used.
The major research questions of this study were: - what was the level of anxiety and depression among undergraduate and graduate students?
- were anxiety and depression affected by age, gender, educational status, type of educational institution, marital status, present living place, religion, monthly family income, respondent’s monthly expenditure, duration of using social media, and sources of information about COVID-19?
Study population and sample: The students (completed 12 years of schooling) over the age of 18 years at tertiary level institutions (general universities, medical colleges, engineering universities/colleges, and other higher educational institutes) who provided their consent, were eligible to participate in this survey.
The main predictor was gender (male as reference, female as other), highest educational status (graduation as reference, postgraduate as other), )VIew the image of this page) type of educational institution (general university as reference and medical college, engineering university as other), marital status (married as reference and unmarried as other), present living place (district town as reference and rural as other), religion (Islam as reference), monthly family income (40000 or less than it as reference), respondent’s monthly expenditure (8000 or less than it as reference), duration of using social media (two hours or less than it as reference) and sources of information about COVID-19 ( Facebook as reference).