Prevalence of Mental Illness among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Diba Saha; Dr. Md. Nur-E-Alam Siddique

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Prevalence of Mental Illness among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Diba Saha

MS Student, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, University of Rajshahi Google Scholar More about the auther

, Dr. Md. Nur-E-Alam Siddique

Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Rajshahi Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.005.20231101

DOI: 10.25215/1101.005

ABSTRACT

The present study was conducted to investigate the status of mental disorders. A total of 300 respondents were selected randomly from Rajshahi University as a sample for the study. Bangla version of (Alim et al., 2014) Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS- 21) was used to measure mental illness of the respondents. Obtained data were analyzed by employing descriptive statistics, through IBM SPSS Version-25.0. The survey found that 59.7% of respondents suffered from mild to extremely severe stress symptoms, 79.3% of students had mild to extremely severe anxiety symptoms and 70.3% experienced mild to extremely severe depressive symptoms, respectively.

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Prevalence, mental illness, university students

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How to cite this article: Saha, D. & Siddique, N E A(2023). Prevalence of Mental Illness among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 11(1),037-042. DIP:18.01.005.20231101, DOI:10.25215/1101.005