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Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation
Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. We aimed at assessing the prevalence of anxiety among Bangladeshi people...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32916691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238974 |
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author | Hossain, Md. Tanvir Ahammed, Benojir Chanda, Sanjoy Kumar Jahan, Nusrat Ela, Mahfuza Zaman Islam, Md. Nazrul |
author_facet | Hossain, Md. Tanvir Ahammed, Benojir Chanda, Sanjoy Kumar Jahan, Nusrat Ela, Mahfuza Zaman Islam, Md. Nazrul |
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description | Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. We aimed at assessing the prevalence of anxiety among Bangladeshi people during the pandemic in connection with social media exposure (SME) and electronic media exposure (EME). For this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 880 participants by a self-administered online-based questionnaire relating personal characteristics, self-rate health (SRH), SME, and EME with anxiety. Findings show that around half of the surveyed population experienced a spike of anxiety (49.1%) during the pandemic, ten times higher than the national anxiety rate in 2019. The participants with an increased SME of over four hours per day experienced a higher level of anxiety than individuals with < = 2 hours exposure to social media. Similarly, the anxiety was higher among people with fair/bad SRH compared to individuals with excellent SRH. It is highly recommended to develop active surveillance and effective monitoring systems to reduce the spread of misinformation from both social and electronic media to improve the state of mental health conditions during the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-74861352020-09-21 Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation Hossain, Md. Tanvir Ahammed, Benojir Chanda, Sanjoy Kumar Jahan, Nusrat Ela, Mahfuza Zaman Islam, Md. Nazrul PLoS One Research Article Classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has spread to Bangladesh since early March of 2020, and people are getting daily updates from the social and electronic media. We aimed at assessing the prevalence of anxiety among Bangladeshi people during the pandemic in connection with social media exposure (SME) and electronic media exposure (EME). For this cross-sectional study, data were collected from 880 participants by a self-administered online-based questionnaire relating personal characteristics, self-rate health (SRH), SME, and EME with anxiety. Findings show that around half of the surveyed population experienced a spike of anxiety (49.1%) during the pandemic, ten times higher than the national anxiety rate in 2019. The participants with an increased SME of over four hours per day experienced a higher level of anxiety than individuals with < = 2 hours exposure to social media. Similarly, the anxiety was higher among people with fair/bad SRH compared to individuals with excellent SRH. It is highly recommended to develop active surveillance and effective monitoring systems to reduce the spread of misinformation from both social and electronic media to improve the state of mental health conditions during the pandemic. Public Library of Science 2020-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7486135/ /pubmed/32916691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238974 Text en © 2020 Hossain et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hossain, Md. Tanvir Ahammed, Benojir Chanda, Sanjoy Kumar Jahan, Nusrat Ela, Mahfuza Zaman Islam, Md. Nazrul Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title | Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title_full | Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title_fullStr | Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title_full_unstemmed | Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title_short | Social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh: A preliminary observation |
title_sort | social and electronic media exposure and generalized anxiety disorder among people during covid-19 outbreak in bangladesh: a preliminary observation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32916691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238974 |
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