Shaharior Rahman Razu, Tasnuva Yasmin, Taimia Binte Arif, Md. Shahin Islam et al.
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused increasing challenges for healthcare professionals globally. However, there is a dearth of information about these challenges in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. This study aims to explore the challenges faced by...
Sultan Mahmud, Sorif Hossain, Abdul Muyeed, Md. Mynul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health professionals who are at the frontline of this crisis have been facing extreme psychological disorders. This research aims to provide an overall scenario of the prevalence of depression, anxiety, stress, as well as insomnia and to inspect the chan...
Chris Gibbons, Martin Dempster, Marianne Moutray
AIM: This paper is a report of a study to identify experiences that led to both distress and eustress and to make recommendations to help students cope with course demands. BACKGROUND: Much of the research on stress in nursing students is quantitative in focus and all draws on their experience of di...
Eliza Omar Eva, Md Zakirul Islam, Abu Syed Md. Mosaddek, Md Faizur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Throughout the world all health professionals face stress because of time-pressures, workload, multiple roles and emotional issues. Stress does not only exist among the health professionals but also in medical students. Bangladesh has currently 77 medical colleges 54 of which are private...
Abida Sultana, Rachit Sharma, Md Mahbub Hossain, Sudip Bhattacharya et al.
Burnout is a major occupational problem among healthcare providers, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The frontline health workforce is experiencing a high workload and multiple psychosocial stressors which may affect their mental and emotional health, leading to burnout symptoms. Moreover, s...
Najmuj Sakib, Tahmina Akter, Fatematuz Zohra, A. K. M. Israfil Bhuiyan et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' mental health that can result in fear of getting COVID-19 infection and depression. As there is no prior study available, we evaluated these mental health outcomes and associated factors among the general population and healthcare professionals (HCPs) in Ba...
Kay Choong See, Ming Zhao, Emiko Nakataki, Kaweesak Chittawatanarat et al.
Purpose Professional burnout is a multidimensional syndrome comprising emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished sense of personal accomplishment, and is associated with poor staff health and decreased quality of medical care. We investigated burnout prevalence and its associated risk ...
Heba Bakr Khoshaim, Areej Alsukayt, Karuthan Chinna, Mohammad Nurunnabi et al.
COVID-19 is the worst pandemic of this millennium, and it is considered to be the "public enemy number one." This catastrophe has changed the way we live in the blink of an eye. Not only has it threatened our existence and health status, but the damage associated with it could equally affect our eco...
Sheikh Md. Abu Hena Mostafa Alim, Sadnan Kibria, Md Jahurul Lslam, Md Zahir Uddin et al.
Standard scale to assess the symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress among MBBS students are essential to take necessary steps to treat or prevent any psychiatric morbidity. But there was no such convenient tool in Bangla to measure the stated symptoms. With an objective to obtain a convenient sc...
Farhana Safa, Afifa Anjum, Sahadat Hossain, Tonima Islam Trisa et al.
Background 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 ...
Nikolett Eisenbeck, David F. Carreno, Paul T. P. Wong, Joshua A. Hicks et al.
This study examined the role of different psychological coping mechanisms in mental and physical health during the initial phases of the COVID-19 crisis with an emphasis on meaning-centered coping. A total of 11,227 people from 30 countries across all continents participated in the study and complet...
Md Azim Uddin Repon, Sajuti Akter Pakhe, Sumaiya Quaiyum, Rajesh Das et al.
The COVID-19 has been spreading across the world since December 2019. The pandemic has created tremendous fear of death from infection and awful psychological pressure on healthcare professionals (HCPs). The measures of psychological effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Bangladeshi HCPs are unkno...
Rafia Tasnim, Md. Safaet Hossain Sujan, Md. Saiful Islam, Asmaul Husna Ritu et al.
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCWs) who are in the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic are often under significant pressures that may predispose them to symptoms of poor mental health. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of anxiety and depression among HCWs and factors correlated wit...
Nahid Akter, Thitinut Akkadechanunt, Ratanawadee Chontawan, Areewan Klunklin
AIM: This study examined the level of quality of work life and predictability of years of education, monthly income, years of experience, job stress, organizational commitment and work environment on quality of work life among nurses in tertiary-level hospitals in the People's Republic of Bangladesh...
Sheikh Md. Abu Hena Mostafa Alim, Md. Golam Rabbani, Enayet Karim, Mohammad Syedul Islam Mullick et al.
Medical students confront significant academic, psychosocial and existential stressors for coping with new college and schedule,. So assessment of the symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress among medical students are essential to take necessary steps to treat or prevent any psychiatric morbidity...