~138~ International Journal of Statistics and Applied Mathematics 2020; 5(6): 138-141 ISSN: 2456-1452 Maths 2020; 5(6): 138-141 © 2020 Stats & Maths www.mathsjournal.com Received: 19-09-2020 Accepted: 25-10-2020 Md. Ashraful Islam Lecturer, Department of Statistics, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Tahmina Khatun Department of Business Administration, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh Pulakesh Basak Lecturer, Department of Food Science and Engineering, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Md. Abdul Wazed Lecturer, Department of Food Science and Engineering, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Md. Mohymenul Islam Lecturer, Department of Physics, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Sheela Khatun Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Corresponding Author: Md. Ashraful Islam Lecturer, Department of Statistics, German University Bangladesh, Gazipur, Bangladesh Mental health burden during COVID-19 pandemic: A survey on university students of Bangladesh Md. Ashraful Islam, Tahmina Khatun, Pulakesh Basak, Md. Abdul Wazed, Md. Mohymenul Islam and Sheela Khatun Abstract The purpose of the study was to access the mental health burden and anxiety of University Students in Bangladesh. An online survey was conducted among students from different universities in Bangladesh. There were 558 students from different universities who completed the online survey on different social media from 5 July to 20 July 2020. The descriptive results display that, 49.3% of students were female and 50.7% of students were male. The chi-square test was performed to explore the association between demographic and COVID-19 related variables with the anxiety level of the students. The results demonstrate that the association between the gender of the students and their anxiety level on COVID-19 is significant (p-value<0.00). The results also show a significant association between the time used by students for getting COVID-19 information anxiety level (p-value<0.01). The anxiety level is more likely to relate student’s day to day routine-based tasks and their online activities. Keywords: Pandemic, COVID-19, mental health, university students 1. Introduction On March 8, with three confirmed cases, Bangladesh became a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2(SARS-CoV-2) (WIKIPEDIA, 2020). People of 213 countries have already affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with an acute number of confirmed cases and deaths and have instigated public panic and mental stress (Huang & Zhao, 2020). By August 10, 2020, a total of 260,507cases were confirmed in mainland Bangladesh, and 3438 patients have died. Around the world, 213 countries and territories have reported a total of 20,072,673 confirmed cases of coronavirus COVID-19 with 734,812 death cases originated from Wuhan, China (Worldometer, 2020) [4] . In South Asia, After India and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third most affected country and 15 most affected countries in the world. Yet there are no approved antiviral drugs to control the existence of this virus. Though Russia has announced they have finished clinical trials of vaccine (Sputnik- V) on human bodies and the results have proven the effectiveness of the medications but we exactly don’t know when they will officially sell it (Aljazeera, 2020) [6] . Moreover, Bangladesh is a third grade developing and densely populated country so several times precautions against this novel virus like social distance, home office, lockdown procedures etc. can’t be possible to maintain. It has also impacted on the mental health of the people of Bangladesh. This web-based research will help to know the potential influencing factors of the mental stress of the people of Bangladesh during this pandemic and probable suggestion for stress management. 1.1 Causes of stress due to pandemic After reading several articles, newspaper, web – based news and watching television news we marked 5 powerful force, leading to stress in the interim period of this pandemic. Unknown stressor: Undoubtedly, we are passing a very stressful time, particularly since we are not aware of stressor. It is totally new, we didn’t get minimum time for preparation and adaption, there is no available antidotes or vaccine, and we don’t know how to deal with it (Vinkers, et al., 2020) [19] .