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Title: Psychological impact of COVID19 pandemic lockdown in Bangladesh: A survey-based approach to assess the roles of health education
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, DEBENDRA NATH ROY, MD. MOHABBOT HOSSEN, KISHORE KUMAR SARKAR, JIMMATUL BASRI, NOWRIN FERDIOUSI, MD.SHAH AZAM
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Background and Aims: The pandemic outbreak of COVID19 has been devastating not only for its direct impact on lives and physical health settings, but also on mental health status. Due to the pandemic, the majority of the individuals exposed to an unprecedented stressful lockdown situation with unknown duration worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the psychological health (prevalence of perceived stress, anxiety, and depression as well as insomnia symptoms) impact of COVID19 lockdown on the general peoples and assess the roles of health education in lockdown. Methods: Following the previous literatures, semi-structured questionnaires were developed and snowball sampling technique was applied in this qualitative study. Data were analyzed via SPSS Statistical software; while p<0.05 was considered significant. Results: Our result revealed that, among 50% anxiety symptoms, mild, moderate and severe level were of 28%, 17 % and 5%, respectively whereas the percentages of minimal, moderate and severe symptoms were found to be 8.4%, 2.9% and 1.6%, corresponding among 12.9% depressed people whereas sub-threshold, moderate and severe clinical symptoms (15%, 6 % and 2%, respectively) among 23.3% insomnia. However, self-reported stress as well as mental dysfunction showed significant value of 54.4% and 1.3%, respectively in contrasting with 23.3% demonstrated normal psychic behavior. Dual psychiatric problems including stress and anxiety, anxiety and insomnia and depression and insomnia symptoms were reported by 37%, 15% and 6% participants, respectively. There was insignificant (p<0.05) mental health effects in response to gender variations. 21%, 16%, 2% and 5% exhibited stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia among 30% female, and the results were 35%, 34%, 11% and 18% among 69.6% male respondents. The study reported that, during the lockdown 47.4% participants received mental health education in reducing the psychological distress syndromes and associated risk factors. Conclusions: An integrated approach in few settings including health education systems, community connectedness and implementation of effective health policies are needed to manage pandemic induced psychological problems and to strengthen the overall health systems.
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COVID19, Pandemic, Psychological, Lockdown, Education, Bangladesh.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP3.119
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