Facebook addiction associated with internet activity, depression and behavioral factors among university students of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

Sayeed, Abu; Hassan, Nazmul; Rahman, Hafizur; Hayek, Samer El; Banna, Md. Hasan Al; Mallick, Trisha; Hasan, Al-Riaj; Meem, Amatul Elah; Kundu, Satyajit

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105424

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“…To follow this procedure, citizens, as well as students, were bound to stay at home for a long period ( Khan et al, 2020 ), which might have heightened the risk of developing mental health difficulties ( Ravesloot et al, 2016 ). The high prevalence of negative mental health issues in Bangladeshi students has already been reported in different contemporary studies ( Anjum et al, 2019 , Hossain et al, 2019 , Sayeed et al, 2020 ). A recent study conducted among Bangladeshi college and university students during the COVID-19 pandemic has also described a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress symptoms and identified that COVID-19 like symptoms and fear of infection were two strong predictors of this high pervasiveness of mental consequences ( Khan et al, 2020 ).…”

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Mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 and perceptions towards the pandemic: Findings from a cross sectional study among Bangladeshi students

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Highlights This is the first few studies exploring the perceptions of Bangladeshi students towards the COVID-19 pandemic. Female students showed higher stress levels, greater anxiety symptoms and, depressive symptoms. Younger students had a greater psychological impact due to COVID-19 than senior students. The psychological impact is higher among those students who have at least one COVID-19 like symptoms.

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Mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 and perceptions towards the pandemic: Findings from a cross sectional study among Bangladeshi students

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“…Thus, individuals with deep feelings of loneliness seek various ways to avoid these situations and to recoup for their loneliness. These solutions can sometimes lead individuals into difficult situations such as the adoption of undesired habits like severe internet addiction [ 75 ], and that internet addiction is a crucial factor in explaining depression particularly among university students [ 41 , 42 ]. These might be the possible reasons for being depressed due to the experience of loneliness.…”

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“…In order to investigate the effect of short or long sleep time versus “normal” sleep time, we divided sleep duration into long (9 h or more), normal (7 and 8 h), and short (6 h or less). The categories were also followed by several studies conducted among university students [ 15 , 16 , 41 , 42 ].…”

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Depressive symptoms associated with loneliness and physical activities among graduate university students in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional pilot study

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Bakchi

Banna

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In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth of research on the mental health of university students. This pilot study aimed to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms, loneliness, and physical activities as well as the associated factors of depressive symptoms among graduate students in a public university of Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was carried out among 323 graduate students between February 2019 and May 2019. By the convenience sampling technique, data were collected by a pretested, structured questionnaire. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the validated Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) tool with a cut-off score of ≥10 vs. less; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness scale was applied to assess loneliness, International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) scale was used to measure physical activity level. The overall prevalence of depressive symptoms was 52% and about 43% of participants felt most lonely. About 32.8% of students were involved in low physical activity. Being female, from lower income families, having poor academic performance, experiencing shorter sleep time, lower physical activity, and being lonely were potential risk factors for depressive symptoms among graduate university students. A positive correlation was found between loneliness and depressive symptoms of students (r = 0.367, p < 0.001). The higher prevalence of depressive symptoms among Bangladeshi graduate university students suggests the need for situation analysis, confirmatory clinical diagnosis, in-depth qualitative explorations, and large-scale surveys to explore the burden of such disorders and design appropriate low-intensity interventions like implementing student counselling service, offering mental assistance or other mental health support program in the country.

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“…As the internet is becoming cheaper and providing easier access every day, people of all ages across the globe are being more and more active on social media channels. In every single minute, on average, 510,000 comments and 136,000 photos are shared on Facebook, 350,000 tweets are posted on Twitter, and 300 h of video are uploaded to YouTube (Hossain et al, 2019;Sayeed et al, 2020;Sundarasen et al, 2020). As a result, while handling such huge amounts of data, social media companies are now depending on AI broadly (Hassan et al, 2020).…”

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“…Correspondingly with the rest of the world, Bangladesh, with about 90 million Internet users (Hassan et al, 2020) and about 30 million social media users (Sayeed et al, 2020) are vulnerable to the influence of radicalisation online. International VE organisations like the Islamic State and their local disciples have already started exploiting this opportunity.…”

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Countering violent extremism using social media and preventing implementable strategies for Bangladesh

Barua

Kafy

2021

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Globally, more than 85% of youth use social media daily in the medium of Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc., which is more than 70% for Bangladesh. The young population of Bangladesh is rapidly embracing social media through the internet and afflicted with the malaise of countering violent extremism (CVE), often through Facebook. Given the increasing connectedness that the internet and social media offer, it is crucial that the fight against CVE shift to the digital space. Extremists are increasingly adopting novel ways and means based on technology to draw unsuspecting youth to their cause. It is essential to establish effective implementable strategies to stop the CVE activities using social media in Bangladesh. This study aims to identify existing initiatives globally in the space of disruptive online technologies that have yielded some success in preventing CVE. Various publications such as journal and news articles, TV news, and blogs have been used as data sources for this study. Also, fifteen expert interviews have been conducted to identify the most effective strategies for CVE in Bangladesh. Through the content analysis, the study highlights successful efforts and explores technology-based initiatives that can be deployed in Bangladesh to minimize the impact of VE activities through online technology. Finally, recommendations for strategies to restrict VE activities through technologies have been suggested that can be potentially implemented by the Bangladesh government by coordinating with international donor agencies and CVE practitioners. The research output recommends that Bangladesh and other less developed countries can concurrently deal with CVE by successfully using cutting-edge online/digital technologies.

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Facebook addiction associated with internet activity, depression and behavioral factors among university students of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

Cited by 46 publications

References 38 publications

Mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 and perceptions towards the pandemic: Findings from a cross sectional study among Bangladeshi students

Mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 and perceptions towards the pandemic: Findings from a cross sectional study among Bangladeshi students

Depressive symptoms associated with loneliness and physical activities among graduate university students in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional pilot study

Countering violent extremism using social media and preventing implementable strategies for Bangladesh

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