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Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems

BACKGROUND: It is said that psychological stressors have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may contribute to suicidality. A few studies were conducted investigating suicidality amid the first wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh, but none of these studies explored the predictive role of the su...

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Autores principales: Mamun, Mohammed A, al Mamun, Firoj, Hosen, Ismail, Hasan, Mahmudul, Rahman, Abidur, Jubayar, Ahsanul Mahbub, Maliha, Zeba, Abdullah, Abu Hasnat, Sarker, Md Abedin, Kabir, Humayun, Jyoti, Avijit Sarker, Kaggwa, Mark Mohan, Sikder, Md Tajuddin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34616192
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S330282
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author Mamun, Mohammed A
al Mamun, Firoj
Hosen, Ismail
Hasan, Mahmudul
Rahman, Abidur
Jubayar, Ahsanul Mahbub
Maliha, Zeba
Abdullah, Abu Hasnat
Sarker, Md Abedin
Kabir, Humayun
Jyoti, Avijit Sarker
Kaggwa, Mark Mohan
Sikder, Md Tajuddin
author_facet Mamun, Mohammed A
al Mamun, Firoj
Hosen, Ismail
Hasan, Mahmudul
Rahman, Abidur
Jubayar, Ahsanul Mahbub
Maliha, Zeba
Abdullah, Abu Hasnat
Sarker, Md Abedin
Kabir, Humayun
Jyoti, Avijit Sarker
Kaggwa, Mark Mohan
Sikder, Md Tajuddin
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description BACKGROUND: It is said that psychological stressors have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may contribute to suicidality. A few studies were conducted investigating suicidality amid the first wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh, but none of these studies explored the predictive role of the suicidality-related factors (eg, behavior and health-related variables, COVID-19 risk, fear of COVID-19). Thus, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of suicidality and the predictive models explaining suicidality variance among Bangladeshi young adults during the second wave of the pandemic. METHODS: An online-based cross-sectional survey was conducted during the second wave of the pandemic (between 1 and 13 April 2021; a year after the pandemic's inception in the country). The survey questionnaire collected information on socio-demographics, behavior and health-related variables, COVID-19 risk, fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, and suicidality. A total of 756 data were analyzed (male 59%; mean age 22.24 ±4.39 years), and hierarchical regression was performed considering suicidality as the dependent variable. A p-value <0.05 was set to be statistically significant with a 95% of confidence interval. RESULTS: About 8.2% reported having at least suicidal thoughts within the pandemic inception to survey time (one-year suicidal ideation). More specifically, 7.40% had only suicidal ideation, whereas 0.10% planned for suicide, 0.70% attempted suicide. None of the socio-demographic variables was significantly associated with suicidality. Taking drugs, performing less physical activity, poor self-reporting health condition, being comorbid, being at higher COVID-19 risk, having fear of COVID-19 infection, and suffering from depression and anxiety were significantly associated with a higher risk of suicidality. However, the final model including all of the studied variables explained a 17.1% (F=8.245, p<0.001) variance in terms of suicidality. CONCLUSION: Although this study reported a lower severity of suicidality than prior Bangladeshi studies conducted during the first wave of the pandemic, a portion of people are still at risk of suicide and they should be given attention.
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spelling pubmed-84880282021-10-05 Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems Mamun, Mohammed A al Mamun, Firoj Hosen, Ismail Hasan, Mahmudul Rahman, Abidur Jubayar, Ahsanul Mahbub Maliha, Zeba Abdullah, Abu Hasnat Sarker, Md Abedin Kabir, Humayun Jyoti, Avijit Sarker Kaggwa, Mark Mohan Sikder, Md Tajuddin Risk Manag Healthc Policy Original Research BACKGROUND: It is said that psychological stressors have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may contribute to suicidality. A few studies were conducted investigating suicidality amid the first wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh, but none of these studies explored the predictive role of the suicidality-related factors (eg, behavior and health-related variables, COVID-19 risk, fear of COVID-19). Thus, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of suicidality and the predictive models explaining suicidality variance among Bangladeshi young adults during the second wave of the pandemic. METHODS: An online-based cross-sectional survey was conducted during the second wave of the pandemic (between 1 and 13 April 2021; a year after the pandemic's inception in the country). The survey questionnaire collected information on socio-demographics, behavior and health-related variables, COVID-19 risk, fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, and suicidality. A total of 756 data were analyzed (male 59%; mean age 22.24 ±4.39 years), and hierarchical regression was performed considering suicidality as the dependent variable. A p-value <0.05 was set to be statistically significant with a 95% of confidence interval. RESULTS: About 8.2% reported having at least suicidal thoughts within the pandemic inception to survey time (one-year suicidal ideation). More specifically, 7.40% had only suicidal ideation, whereas 0.10% planned for suicide, 0.70% attempted suicide. None of the socio-demographic variables was significantly associated with suicidality. Taking drugs, performing less physical activity, poor self-reporting health condition, being comorbid, being at higher COVID-19 risk, having fear of COVID-19 infection, and suffering from depression and anxiety were significantly associated with a higher risk of suicidality. However, the final model including all of the studied variables explained a 17.1% (F=8.245, p<0.001) variance in terms of suicidality. CONCLUSION: Although this study reported a lower severity of suicidality than prior Bangladeshi studies conducted during the first wave of the pandemic, a portion of people are still at risk of suicide and they should be given attention. Dove 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8488028/ /pubmed/34616192 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S330282 Text en © 2021 Mamun et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
spellingShingle Original Research
Mamun, Mohammed A
al Mamun, Firoj
Hosen, Ismail
Hasan, Mahmudul
Rahman, Abidur
Jubayar, Ahsanul Mahbub
Maliha, Zeba
Abdullah, Abu Hasnat
Sarker, Md Abedin
Kabir, Humayun
Jyoti, Avijit Sarker
Kaggwa, Mark Mohan
Sikder, Md Tajuddin
Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title_full Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title_fullStr Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title_full_unstemmed Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title_short Suicidality in Bangladeshi Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Behavioral Factors, COVID-19 Risk and Fear, and Mental Health Problems
title_sort suicidality in bangladeshi young adults during the covid-19 pandemic: the role of behavioral factors, covid-19 risk and fear, and mental health problems
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34616192
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S330282
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