Cargando…
Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study
In the current COVID-19 pandemic there are reports of deteriorating psychological conditions among university students in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), but very little is known about the gender differences in the mental health conditions on this population. This study aims to assess general...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Springer International Publishing
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8848456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35194592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44192-022-00005-2 |
_version_ | 1784652255156240384 |
---|---|
author | Muzaffar, Rasma Koly, Kamrun Nahar Choudhury, Sabrina Biswas, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Kader, Shirmin Bintay Abdullah, Rehnuma Kawser, Umme Hasan, M. Tasdik Williams, Darryn Chowdhury, Ariful Bari Ahmed, Helal Uddin |
author_facet | Muzaffar, Rasma Koly, Kamrun Nahar Choudhury, Sabrina Biswas, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Kader, Shirmin Bintay Abdullah, Rehnuma Kawser, Umme Hasan, M. Tasdik Williams, Darryn Chowdhury, Ariful Bari Ahmed, Helal Uddin |
author_sort | Muzaffar, Rasma |
collection | PubMed |
description | In the current COVID-19 pandemic there are reports of deteriorating psychological conditions among university students in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), but very little is known about the gender differences in the mental health conditions on this population. This study aims to assess generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) among university students using a gender lens during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted using web-based Google forms between May 2020 and August 2020 among 605 current students of two universities in Bangladesh. Within the total 605 study participants, 59.5% (360) were female. The prevalence of mild to severe anxiety disorder was 61.8% among females and 38.2% among males. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, females were 2.21 times more likely to have anxiety compared to males [AOR: 2.21; CI 95% (1.28–53.70); p-value: 0.004] and participants’ age was negatively associated with increased levels of anxiety (AOR = 0.17; 95% CI = 0.05–0.57; p = 0.001). In addition, participants who were worried about academic delays were more anxious than those who were not worried about it (AOR: 2.82; 95% CI 1.50–5.31, p = 0.001). These findings of this study will add value to the existing limited evidence and strongly advocate in designing gender-specific, low-intensity interventions to ensure comprehensive mental health services for the young adult population of Bangladesh. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8848456 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | Springer International Publishing |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-88484562022-02-18 Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study Muzaffar, Rasma Koly, Kamrun Nahar Choudhury, Sabrina Biswas, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Kader, Shirmin Bintay Abdullah, Rehnuma Kawser, Umme Hasan, M. Tasdik Williams, Darryn Chowdhury, Ariful Bari Ahmed, Helal Uddin Discov Ment Health Research In the current COVID-19 pandemic there are reports of deteriorating psychological conditions among university students in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), but very little is known about the gender differences in the mental health conditions on this population. This study aims to assess generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) among university students using a gender lens during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted using web-based Google forms between May 2020 and August 2020 among 605 current students of two universities in Bangladesh. Within the total 605 study participants, 59.5% (360) were female. The prevalence of mild to severe anxiety disorder was 61.8% among females and 38.2% among males. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, females were 2.21 times more likely to have anxiety compared to males [AOR: 2.21; CI 95% (1.28–53.70); p-value: 0.004] and participants’ age was negatively associated with increased levels of anxiety (AOR = 0.17; 95% CI = 0.05–0.57; p = 0.001). In addition, participants who were worried about academic delays were more anxious than those who were not worried about it (AOR: 2.82; 95% CI 1.50–5.31, p = 0.001). These findings of this study will add value to the existing limited evidence and strongly advocate in designing gender-specific, low-intensity interventions to ensure comprehensive mental health services for the young adult population of Bangladesh. Springer International Publishing 2022-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8848456/ /pubmed/35194592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44192-022-00005-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Muzaffar, Rasma Koly, Kamrun Nahar Choudhury, Sabrina Biswas, Md Abdullah Al Jubayer Kader, Shirmin Bintay Abdullah, Rehnuma Kawser, Umme Hasan, M. Tasdik Williams, Darryn Chowdhury, Ariful Bari Ahmed, Helal Uddin Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title | Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Generalized anxiety disorder among Bangladeshi university students during COVID-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | generalized anxiety disorder among bangladeshi university students during covid-19 pandemic: gender specific findings from a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8848456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35194592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44192-022-00005-2 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT muzaffarrasma generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT kolykamrunnahar generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT choudhurysabrina generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT biswasmdabdullahaljubayer generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT kadershirminbintay generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT abdullahrehnuma generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT kawserumme generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT hasanmtasdik generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT williamsdarryn generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT chowdhuryarifulbari generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy AT ahmedhelaluddin generalizedanxietydisorderamongbangladeshiuniversitystudentsduringcovid19pandemicgenderspecificfindingsfromacrosssectionalstudy |