Immediate psychological responses during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi medical students

Farhana Safa, Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, Tonima Islam Trisa, Syeda Fatema Alam, Md. Abdur Rafi, Vivek Podder, Kamrun Nahar Koly, Dewan Tasnia Azad, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Rhedeya Nury Nodi, Fatema Ashraf, S.M. Quamrul Akhter, Helal Uddin Ahmed and M. Tasdik Hasan

Children and Youth Services Review, 2021, vol. 122, issue C

Abstract: The most recent global pandemic of COVID-19 has been creating multidimensional damages, including a detrimental impact on the mental health status of individuals. Medical students, a vulnerable cross-section of the population, may have perceived a myriad of psychological stressors during this crisis in the background of their prevailing stressful academic pressure and preexisting higher psychological and mental health issue.

Keywords: COVID-19; Depressive symptoms; Anxiety; Medical students; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105912

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