Background: The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has become a global burden disrupting peoples’ quality of life. Students being an important cohort of a country, their mental health during this pandemic has been recognized as a concerning issue. Therefore, the prevalence and associated risk factors of Bangladeshi students’ mental health sufferings (ie, depression, anxiety, and stress) are systematically reviewed herein for the first time.
Methods: Adhering to the PRISMA guideline, a systematic search was performed from 1 to 5 April, 2021 in several databases including PubMed; and finally, a total of 7 articles were included to this review.
Results: The prevalence rates of mild to severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress ranged from 46.92% to 82.4%, 26.6% to 96.82%, and 28.5% to 70.1%, respectively. The risk factors concerning mental health problems included the factors related to (i) socio-demographic (younger age, gender, lower educational grade, urban residence, family size, currently living with family/parents, and having children in the family), (ii) behavior and health (smoking status, lack of physical exercise, more internet browsing time, and dissatisfaction with sleep), (iii) COVID-19 pandemic- (COVID-19 related symptoms, COVID-19 related perceptions, and fear of COVID-19 infection), (iv) miscellaneous (losing part-time teaching job, lack of study concentration, agitation, fear of getting assaulted or humiliated on the way to the hospital or home, financial problems, academic dissatisfaction, inadequate food supply, higher exposure to COVID-19 social and mass media, engaging with more recreational activities, and performing more household chores).
Conclusion: The overall assumption of mental disorders’ prevalence rates can be regarded as problematic to this cohort. Thus, the authorities should consider setting up possible strategies to diminish the pandemic effect on students’ mental health.



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COVID-19 大流行期间孟加拉国学生的精神障碍：系统评价

背景：史无前例的 COVID-19 大流行已成为扰乱人们生活质量的全球负担。学生是一个国家的重要群体，他们在这次大流行期间的心理健康已被认为是一个令人担忧的问题。因此，本文首次对孟加拉学生心理健康痛苦（即抑郁、焦虑和压力）的患病率及相关危险因素进行系统综述。
方法：遵循 PRISMA 指南，于 2021 年 4 月 1 日至 5 日在包括 PubMed 在内的多个数据库中进行了系统检索；最后，共有7篇文章被纳入本次审查。
结果：轻度至重度抑郁、焦虑和压力症状的患病率分别为46.92%~82.4%、26.6%~96.82%和28.5%~70.1%。与心理健康问题有关的风险因素包括与 (i) 社会人口学（年龄较小、性别、教育程度较低、城市居住地、家庭规模、目前与家人/父母同住以及家里有孩子）相关的因素，（ ii) 行为和健康（吸烟状况、缺乏体育锻炼、更多的互联网浏览时间和对睡眠的不满），(iii) COVID-19 大流行-（与 COVID-19 相关的症状、与 COVID-19 相关的看法和对 COVID 的恐惧） -19 感染），（iv）杂项（失去兼职教学工作，缺乏学习注意力，情绪激动，害怕在去医院或回家的路上受到殴打或羞辱，经济问题，
结论：精神障碍患病率的总体假设可以被视为对该队列有问题。因此，当局应考虑制定可能的策略，以减少大流行对学生心理健康的影响。