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ArticleChildren and youth services review2020

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study.

Sabina Yeasmin, Rajon Banik, Sorif Hossain, Md Nazmul Hossain, Raju Mahumud, Nahid Salma, Md Moyazzem Hossain

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Article in Children and youth services review, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 129 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sabina YeasminDepartment of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Rajon BanikDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Sorif HossainInstitute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Md Nazmul HossainDepartment of Statistics, Islamic University, Kushtia, Khulna, Bangladesh.
Raju MahumudDepartment of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Nahid SalmaDepartment of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Md Moyazzem HossainDepartment of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Jahangirnagar University · BDInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research · BDIslamic University · BDUniversity of Dhaka · BD

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant mental health threat among children in Bangladesh. This study aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children during the lockdown in Bangladesh. An online cross-sectional study was conducted from 25th April to 9th May 2020 among 384 parents having at least one child aged between 5-15 years using non-probability sampling. K-means clustering used to group children according to mental health score and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) performed to identify the relationship among the parental behavior and child mental health, and also these associations were assessed through chi-square test. Children were classified into four groups where 43% of child had subthreshold mental disturbances (mean Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)-10; 2.8), 30.5% had mild (mean MDD-10; 8.9), 19.3% suffered moderately (mean MDD-10; 15.9), and 7.2% of child suffered from severe disturbances (mean MDD-10; 25.2). The higher percentage of mental health disturbances of children with the higher education level of parents, relative infected by COVID-19 (yes), parents still need to go the workplace (yes), and parent's abnormal behavior but lower to their counterparts. This paper demonstrates large proportions of children are suffering from mental health disturbances in Bangladesh during the period of lockdown. Implementation of psychological intervention strategies and improvement in house-hold financial conditions, literacy of parents, taking care of children, and job security may help in improving the psychological/mental status of children and the authors believe that the findings will be beneficial to accelerate the rate of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) linked to health status in Bangladesh.

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