The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health & wellbeing among home-quarantined Bangladeshi students: A cross-sectional pilot study

Highlights • To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study focused on COVID-19 associated mental health among the home-quarantined Bangladeshi university and college students.• University students had greater psychological impact due to COVID-19 than college students.• Perceived COVID-19 symptoms were significantly associated with higher scores in DASS stress subscale (B = 3.71, 95% CI: 1.01 to 6.40), DASS anxiety subscale (B = 3.95, 95% CI: 1.95 to 5.96), DASS depression subscale (B = 3.82, 95% CI: 0.97 to 6.67) and IES scores (B = 7.52, 95% CI: 3.58 to 11.45).• Physical exercise was significantly associated in lowering scores of DASS depression subscale (B = -2.10, 95% CI: -4.02 to -0.17)• Financial uncertainty, fear of COVID-19 infection, inadequate…