Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Bangladesh Prepared?

Khan, Hasinur Rahaman; Howlader, Tamanna; Islam, Md. Mazharul

doi:10.1101/2020.04.29.20084236

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“…7 In Bangladesh, a severe dearth in resources and support have been observed since the initial phase of the pandemic for front line physicians. 8 Hassan et al, (2020) expressed the concerns of Bangladeshi physicians in terms of infecting their own families, considering the tradition of congested, multifamily accommodation with limited quarantine opportunities. They also described, in addition to risking their own physical well-being, that frontline physicians are enduring significant emotional burdens both at work and at home.…”

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Prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Hasan

Hossain

Safa

et al. 2020

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ObjectivesIn addition to risking their physical well-being, frontline physicians are enduring significant emotional burden both at work and home during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to investigate the levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and to identify associated factors among Bangladeshi physicians during the COVID-19 outbreak.Methods and designA cross-sectional study using an online survey was conducted between April 21 and May 10, 2020. Outcomes assessed included demographic questions, COVID-19 related questions, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).ResultsThe survey was completed by 412 Bangladeshi physicians. The findings revealed that, in terms of standardized HADS cut-off points, the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among physicians was 67.72% and 48.5% respectively. Risk factors for higher rates of anxiety or depressive symptoms were: being female, physicians who had experienced COVID-19 like symptoms during the pandemic, those who had not received incentives, those who used self-funded PPE, not received adequate training, lacking perceived self-efficacy to manage COVID -19 positive patients, greater perceived stress of being infected, fear of getting assaulted/humiliated, being more connected with social media, having lower income levels to support the family, feeling more agitated, less than 2 hours of leisure activity per day and short sleep duration. All these factors were found to be positively associated with anxiety and depression in unadjusted and adjusted statistical models.ConclusionsThis study identifies a real concern about the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among Bangladeshi physicians and identifies several associated factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the vulnerability of the physicians in this extraordinary period whilst they are putting their own lives at risk to help people infected by COVID-19, health authorities should address the psychological needs of medical staff and formulate effective strategies to support vital frontline health workers.STHRENGHTS & LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDYThis study reports a novel and concerning findings on the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms with identification of several important associated factors among Bangladeshi physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.The cross-sectional nature of the study design could not establish causal relationship between the dependent and independent variables.This study was carried out by conducting a web-based survey, which might generate sampling bias by excluding the physicians who do not have access to internet or inactive in social medias, and thus limit the generalizability of the findings.

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Prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Hasan

Hossain

Safa

et al. 2020

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“…The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic fully established itself in Bangladesh in early April when the number of infected persons crossed the 100-th mark. Prior to this time, the country detected its first three coronavirus cases on 8 March 2020 (Institute of Epidemiology and Disease Control and Research, 2020), (Khan & Hossain, 2020b), (Khan & Hossain, 2020a), (Khan et al, 2020). Since early April, the number of new infections continued to rise as Bangladesh ramped up the number of tests performed.…”

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Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh using coxcombs: A tribute to Florence Nightingale

Khan¹,

Howlader²

2020

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Following detection of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in early December 2019 in Wuhan, China, nearly six months have passed and almost every country in the world is battling against the COVID-19 war. The frontline warriors, namely the doctors, nurses and healthcare staff, have in many countries struggled to care for the sick under conditions of limited resources and protection and the threat of an overwhelmed healthcare system. It is during times such as this, that we draw strength and inspiration from Florence Nightingale - a passionate statistician, social reformer, feminist champion and a pioneer of modern nursing and data visualization. Nightingale's famed Florence Nightingle Diagram also known as “coxcomb”, which was created 150 years ago and used to display the causes of death in the British Army hospital barracks, demonstrated how data visualization techniques could be a powerful medium of communication and a force for change. This paper pays tribute to Nightingale's work by using data from Bangladesh to show that the coxcomb graph is still relevant in the era of COVID-19. The coxcomb graphs that have been produced to display COVID-19 data have provided deeper insights into the trends and relative changes of variables over the course of the pandemic. The paper also describes codes that allow one to easily reproduce the graphs using the statistical programming language R.

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“…Some of the articles are emphasized on the types, nature, and dimensions of mental stress during COVID-19 (Rahman et al, 2021;Benke et al, 2020;Fontanesi et al 2020;Dubey et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020;Every-Palmer et al, 2020;Marelli et al, 2020;Mucci, Mucci, & Diolaiuti, 2020;Di Blasi et al, 2021;Capuano et al, 2020;Ho, Chee, & Ho, 2020). In Bangladesh, some studies have been conducted to show the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, key challenges to control it, to assess the severity of COVID-19 in the country, psycho-social stress generation from COVID-19, people perception, attitude practice regarding COVID-19, and so on (Shammi et al, 2020;Islam, Bodrud-Doza, Khan et al, 2020;Alam et al, 2020a;Bodrud-Doza et al, 2020;Bhuiyan et al, 2020;Islam, Tusher, Roy, & Rahman, 2020;Yeasmin et al, 2020;Ara et al, 2020;Ferdous et al, 2020;Mannan & Mannan, 2020;Khan, Howlader, & Islam, 2020;Banna et al, 2020). Lockdowns with "coronaphobia" may appear as a disguised enemy to the income earners of the family, the fear of infecting with a strain of stigmatization of affected individuals, families and communities sometimes hinder to get medical test and proper treatment, leads psychosocial morbidities.…”

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Psychosocial Anxiety from Lockdown Due to COVID-19 to Income Earner of the Family: An Evidence from Northern Bangladesh

Parvin¹,

Islam²,

Akter³

et al. 2021

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As a developing nation, Bangladeshi people had to work during lockdown which is the result of a sudden outbreak of COVID-19. It creates different problems in day to day life of common people. The present study, therefore, attempts to understand the socio-economic crisis and mental stress in managing the family within the limited resources of Bangladesh during the lockdown period. The data was collected via a snowball sampling survey method by using a semi-structured questionnaire. Datasets were analyzed through different statistical tools like mean, standard deviation, and percentage. Research shows that female and aged people are much anxious about being affected. Petty business runners are much worried about their basic earning. Affording food to a family within a foreseeable economic crisis, brunt from job loss, the propensity of commodity's high price, wariness for child's academic career through e-learning led people distressed. Insomnia, fatigue, helplessness, distress are notable problems during the time of lockdown. Research finds that mental pressure results from insufficient sleep are creating short temper and chaos in the family and social life also. Strengthening the medical system, creating mass consciousness, implicating time-oriented policy with psycho-social upshots can mitigate the fragility of psychological stress.

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Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Bangladesh Prepared?

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh using coxcombs: A tribute to Florence Nightingale

Psychosocial Anxiety from Lockdown Due to COVID-19 to Income Earner of the Family: An Evidence from Northern Bangladesh

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