47% of people in Bangladesh have been suffering mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent piece of research has found — and students are at the very top of that group. This is what has emerged from a paper by three students of the Department of Public Health and Informatics at Jahangirnagar University, titled ‘Prevalence and Risk Factors of the Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis’.
The paper was written by Ismail Hosen, Firoj Al Mamun and Mohammed Mamun. All three are students of the 46th batch at Jahangirnagar University. These three young researchers are members of a research organisation called ‘Chinta Research Bangladesh’. The paper was published in the journal ‘Global Mental Health’, from Cambridge University Press.
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What this paper shows is that we ought to think a great deal more about the mental health of people in our country. Students in particular must be given the highest priority in this. It is for want of that priority that we so often see incidents such as student suicides, which are sorrowful for everyone. Working on this is Shikkha Web Social।
