International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | March 2023 | Vol 10 | Issue 3 Page 1019 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Salma N et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2023 Mar;10(3):1019-1027 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Exploring physical and phycological condition of Jahangirnagar University students residing near university area during COVID-19 pandemic Nahid Salma 1 *, Piyash Ahmed 1 , Tareq Rahman 1 , M. Asraful Alam 1 , Shohel Mahmud 2 INTRODUCTION The first outbreak of COVID-19 caused by the novel SarsCov2 coronavirus was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and thereafter the whole world was experiencing a life-threatening situation due to this pandemic. 1 The disease spread rapidly in 2020, and the virus subsequently took the form of the global COVID-19 pandemic which was declared as pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. 2,3 Like other countries, Bangladesh was also affected by the viral disease COVID-19. A total number of 2,025,197 people have been infected and 29,363 people have died from this deadly virus in Bangladesh so far. 4 The government of Bangladesh had taken various steps to deal with COVID-19, such as segregation of suspects and segregation of infected patients, local or regional lockdown, closure of all government and private offices, raising public awareness, cancellation of all international and domestic flights, enforcing social distance and academic institutions, etc. 5 The COVID-19 disease has ABSTRACT Background: Due of the closure of all educational institute as well as lockdown, the pandemic has affected physical and psychological health of all level students specifically university level students. Although the online based education was started but that brought different challenge to them. Thus, the study aimed to explore the physical and psychological problems faced by Jahangirnagar University students who resides near university area. Methods: Data was collected through an online questionnaire (Google form) from Jahangirnagar University students who reside near the university area using convenient sampling method. To analyse the data, descriptive statistics, Chi- square test and ordinal logistic regression was executed along with graphical representations. Results: The study showed about 92.5% (moderately: 41.2 %, extremely severe: 18%, severe: 24.7%, mild: 8.6%) students were depressed while 94.8% extremely severe: 49.8%, mild: 2.2%, moderate: 15.4% and severe: 27.3%) students were suffering from anxiety problems during pandemic. Chi-square and ordinal logistic suggested “infected by COVID-19”, “sleeping time”, and “time usually spent on physical activity” were the risk factors for depression and anxiety. The study revealed 73.8 percent of respondents have long-term health-related complications where half (52.8%) of the respondents think that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on their physical health. Conclusions: This study shows that throughout the COVID-19 period, a substantial percentage of Jahangirnagar University students experienced physical and psychological health issues. Proper initiatives should be taken by government and policymakers to boost up the mental and physical health condition of students. Keywords: Bangladesh, Chi-square, COVID-19, DASS-21, Ordinal logistic, University students 1 Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh 2 Department of Statistics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh Received: 02 January 2023 Revised: 15 February 2023 Accepted: 16 February 2023 *Correspondence: Nahid Salma, E-mail: nahidsalma@juniv.edu Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20230616